Wikiversity:Colloquium/archives/April 2022

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022
Ah...well, it's me again - for the hat trick. As announced above, a vote is now ongoing. See below or Meta-wiki for more details. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 00:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
 * m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Vote • 

Hello everyone,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.

You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Wikimedia Foundation

Feel free to let me know if you have questions. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 00:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Update on Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification vote (as of 17 March)
Hi all,

With a little under 4 days left in the poll, I can share that there are 1518 voters as of 17 March 21:00 UTC, and there was no voters with a home wiki registration of en.wikiversity.

While I'm keeping in mind that homewiki isn't always indicative of where an editor is active, I want to remind everyone that local opinions are sought in this global decision. Even if your homewiki is not enwikiversity, commenting on the guidelines from the perspective of this project will be beneficial.

Here are some of the other votership numbers:

The poll can be accessed locally here: m:Special:SecurePoll/vote/391.

Let me know if you have any questions. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:40, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * As an update, there are now 1623 voters while this project increased its representation to be equal to its share of the electorate. Please continue to share the voting information with interested users. I appreciate all the input and reviews local users have contributed throughout this process. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:28, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


 * There is an issue with the local jump poll, so please use m:Special:SecurePoll/vote/391 to access the poll.


 * As an update, there are now around 2108 votes and this project increased its representation further (nice!). I shared some votership data that may be of interest at English Wikipedia's policy Village Pump.


 * Please share the information links with interested users: Project Overview • Universal Code of Conduct • Enforcement guidelines (proposed) • Voting • Voter information


 * All the best, Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed - local voter statistics

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 *  m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Vote/Closing message • 

Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks from the close of voting for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language. You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance 

Hey all, I crunched some numbers and found that there was much more local representation than the previous numbers indicated: 15 users voters qualified locally. I thought you might be interested in how many voters qualified for English projects in comparison. (A qualifying voter is someone who had at least 20 edits on that project during the qualifying 6-month period.)

More statistics are here. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:12, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Results from the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification vote published

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 *  m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/Voting/Results/Announcement • 

The Trust and Safety Policy team published the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification vote. The vote ended 21 March 2022. See the results and read more on Meta-wiki. 

I'm also including a note below that includes information about the next steps. I can share that there is an upcoming Board Community Affairs Committee meeting 21 April 2022 at 10:00 UTC. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:48, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


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 *  m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Enforcement guidelines/UCoC Phase 2 Ratification Results Announcement • 

Hello all,

We would like to thank the over 2,300 Wikimedians who participated in the recently concluded community vote on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). At this time, the volunteer scrutinizing group has completed the review of the accuracy of the vote and the final results are available on Meta-wiki. A quick summary can be found below:


 * 58.6% Yes, 41.4% No
 * Contributors from 128 home wikis participated in the vote
 * Over thirty languages were supported in the ballot

What this outcome means is that there is enough support for the Board to review the document. It does not mean that the Enforcement Guidelines are automatically complete.

From here, the project team will collate and summarize the comments provided in the voting process, and publish them on Meta-wiki. The Enforcement Guidelines will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their consideration. The Board will review input given during the vote, and examine whether there are aspects of the Guidelines that need further refinement. If so, these comments, and the input provided through Meta-wiki and other community conversations, will provide a good starting point for revising the Guidelines to meet the needs expressed by communities in the voter's responses.

In the event the Board moves forward with ratification, the UCoC project team will begin supporting specific proposals in the Guidelines. Some of these proposals include working with community members to form the U4C Building Committee, starting consultations on training, and supporting conversations on improving our reporting systems. There is still a lot to be done, but we will be able to move into the next phase of this work.

Many people took part in making sure the policy and the enforcement guidelines work for our communities. We will continue to collaboratively work on the details of the strong proposals outlined in the Guidelines as presented by the Wikimedians who engaged with the project in different ways over the last year.

Once again, we thank everyone who participated in the ratification of the Enforcement Guidelines.

For more information regarding the results, please refer to the Results page.

Regards,

SNg (WMF)

Stella Ng on behalf of the UCoC Project Team

Senior Manager, Trust and Safety Policy 

Next steps: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and UCoC Enforcement Guidelines

 *  m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/April 2022 - Board of Trustees on Next steps: Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) and UCoC Enforcement Guidelines • 

The Community Affairs Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees would like to thank everyone who participated in the recently concluded community vote on the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC).

The volunteer scrutinizing group has completed the review of the accuracy of the vote and has reported the total number of votes received as 2,283. Out of the 2,283 votes received, a total of 1,338 (58.6%) community members voted for the enforcement guidelines, and a total of 945 (41.4%) community members voted against it. In addition, 658 participants left comments with 77% of the comments written in English.

We recognize and appreciate the passion and commitment that community members have demonstrated in creating a safe and welcoming culture that stops hostile and toxic behavior, supports people targeted by such behavior, and encourages good faith people to be productive on the Wikimedia projects.

Even at this incomplete stage, this is evident in the comments received. While the Enforcement Guidelines did reach a threshold of support necessary for the Board to review, we encouraged voters, regardless of which way they were voting, to provide feedback on the elements of the enforcement guidelines that they felt needed to be changed or fixed, as well as why, in case it seemed advisable to launch a further round of edits that would address community concerns.

Foundation staff who have been reviewing comments have advised us of some of the emerging themes, and as a result we have decided as Community Affairs Committee to ask the Foundation to reconvene the drafting committee and to undertake another community engagement to refine the enforcement guidelines based on the community feedback received from the recently concluded vote.

For clarity, this feedback has been clustered into 4 sections as follows:


 * 1) To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the training;
 * 2) To simplify the language for easier translation and comprehension by non-experts;
 * 3) To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
 * 4) To review the conflicting roles of privacy/victim protection and right to be heard.

Other issues may emerge during conversations, and particularly as the draft Enforcement Guidelines evolve, but we see these as the primary areas of concern for voters and are asking staff to facilitate review of these issues. After further engagement, the Foundation should re-run the community vote to evaluate the revamped Enforcement Outline to see if the new document is then ready for its official ratification.

Further, we are aware of the concerns with the note 3.1 in the Universal Code of Conduct Policy. We are directing the Foundation to facilitate a review of this language to ensure that the Policy meets its intended purposes of supporting a safe and inclusive community, without waiting for the planned review of the entire Policy at the end of year.

Again, we thank all who participated, thinking about these critical and difficult challenges and contributing to better approaches across the movement to working together well.

Best,

Rosie

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)

Acting Chair, Community Affairs Committee

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 

As a reminder, there is an upcoming Board Community Affairs Committee meeting 21 April 2022 at 10:00 UTC: the first in a series of conversations about the Foundation 2022-2023 Annual Plan draft. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 02:03, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 6
 Movement Strategy and Governance News Issue 6, April 2022 Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the sixth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board of trustees elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while the more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter. 


 * Leadership Development - A Working Group is Forming! - The application to join the Leadership Development Working Group closed on April 10th, 2022, and up to 12 community members will be selected to participate in the working group. (continue reading)
 * Universal Code of Conduct Ratification Results are out! - The global decision process on the enforcement of the UCoC via SecurePoll was held from 7 to 21 March. Over 2,300 eligible voters from at least 128 different home projects submitted their opinions and comments. (continue reading)
 * Movement Discussions on Hubs - The Global Conversation event on Regional and Thematic Hubs was held on Saturday, March 12, and was attended by 84 diverse Wikimedians from across the movement. (continue reading)
 * Movement Strategy Grants Remain Open! - Since the start of the year, six proposals with a total value of about $80,000 USD have been approved. Do you have a movement strategy project idea? Reach out to us! (continue reading)
 * The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is All Set! - The Committee of fifteen members which was elected in October 2021, has agreed on the essential values and methods for its work, and has started to create the outline of the Movement Charter draft. (continue reading)
 * Introducing Movement Strategy Weekly - Contribute and Subscribe! - The MSG team have just launched the updates portal, which is connected to the various Movement Strategy pages on Meta-wiki. Subscriber to get up-to-date news about the various ongoing projects. (continue reading)
 * Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about the UCoC on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

Kindly let me know if you have any questions. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 01:13, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Join the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan conversations with Maryana Iskander
A draft of the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan was just published. Input is being sought on-wiki and during several conversations with Maryana Iskander. Please see the schedule of calls below, followed by the full announcement. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 00:40, 15 April 2022 (UTC)


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 *  m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2022-2023/Conversations/Announcement • 

Hello,

The Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan, a plan of record for the Wikimedia Foundation's work.

These conversations continue Maryana Iskander's Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer listening tour.

The conversations are about these questions:
 * The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
 * The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. What is working well? How can we improve?
 * Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. Let's collect your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

You can find the schedule of calls on Meta-wiki.

The information will be available in multiple languages. Each call will be open to anyone to attend. Live interpretation will be available in some calls.

Best regards,  Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 00:40, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The first conversation starts in about 15 minutes: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82114230052 Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 13:49, 23 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The final general call will begin in just under an hour. I hope you can join us at the following Zoom link. The languages supported with live interpretation for this call are English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Xeno (WMF) (discuss • contribs) 16:35, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

convOERter
Cool tool: https://convoerter.elearn.rwth-aachen.de/en/ - a Web app which facilitates conversion of existing documents or presentations into Open Educational Resources (OER). -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:02, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Coming soon: Improvements for templates
Hello, more changes around templates are coming to your wiki soon:

The template dialog in VisualEditor and in the 2017 Wikitext Editor (beta) will be improved fundamentally: This should help users understand better what the template expects, how to navigate the template, and how to add parameters.
 * project page, talk page

In syntax highlighting (CodeMirror extension), you can activate a colorblind-friendly color scheme with a user setting.
 * project page, talk page

Deployment is planned for May 10. This is the last set of improvements from WMDE Technical Wishes' focus area “Templates”.

We would love to hear your feedback on our talk pages! -- Johanna Strodt (WMDE) 11:13, 29 April 2022 (UTC)