[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020

[Kiril Simeonovski]

Dear all,

I hope you are fine and healthy amid the difficult times.

After the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2020
 was cancelled
and postponed for 2021 due the COVID-19 pandemic, we came up with the idea
of organising an online conference in order to keep continuity and discuss
the major ongoings in the Wikimedia movement. The online event is planned
to take place as the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020
 from
2-4 October and it will be labelled with the slogan "Stay Stronger Online!".

The programme for the event will be modest compared to the in-person
conferences because of the technical difficulties and the different
participants' environment. About a half of the time slots will be reserved
for sessions on pre-selected topics covering major ongoings in the
movement, while the other half will be filled with session proposals
received through a call for submissions with three tracks in the submission
process: COVID-19, Basic capacity development and Advanced capacity
development. *The deadline for submitting session proposals

is
23:59 (CEST) on 31 August 2020.*

Considering that this is planned to be an online event, we decided to *extend
the eligibility for participation beyond the CEE communities and allow
every interested individual contributor from the Wikimedia movement to take
part (see list of interested participants
)*.
That said, we hope that this online event will be enriched and diversified
with the participation of people outside the CEE region.

Stay safe and healthy!

Best regards,
Kiril Simeonovski
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee - Call for participation

[Peter Southwood]

Thanks,
P

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Christel Steigenberger
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:50
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee - Call 
for participation

Hi Peter,

Thank you for coming back to me with this clarifying question and comment.
And sorry for having broken the threading with my previous mail.

The community feedback will be mainly gathered on Meta, but we will try and
reach out to communities on different channels on- and off-wiki to
encourage them to take part in the process. We will also accept comments
that come in through other channels and post them in aggregate form on
Meta, if users are not comfortable going there themselves. While we are
already spending time and energy to prepare for outreach in different
languages, we are also aware of the fact that we cannot do this alone. We
appreciate every bit of help from you and others on the mailing list, to
spread the word that the community comment period will be between August 24
and September 23 and to help us translate the content in more languages
than we alone might be able to do. If you know of good channels to spread
the word, or know about people willing and able to translate the content
into lesser known languages, please let us know!

Within the drafting committee we have people speaking 12 different
languages that I am aware of - and possibly more. Besides English and
Arabic, those are five European, three African and two Indic languages. In
addition we have hired facilitators from the community who speak Arabic,
Georgian, Persian, Russian and Swahili and we will be getting help from the
translator’s pool in our communications department.

Please always feel free to let us know of other ideas to improve the
process for community feedback gathering!

Best regards,
Christel

Christel Steigenberger (she/her)

Trust and Safety Specialist

Wikimedia Foundation 



On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:44 PM Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> Hi Christel
> I am glad to hear that, and I hope that proper consultation will occur
> with all potentially affected parties, in places where they can comment and
> point out problems on user friendly or at least familiar software, over at
> least a reasonably representative range of languages, and with sufficient
> time to discuss issues without  an excessively tight deadline.
> Speaking of which, what is the language spread  of the drafting committee?
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Christel Steigenberger
> Sent: 31 July 2020 17:48
> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee -
> Call for participation
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I hear and understand your worries. I’d like to reassure you that we are
> very aware of the fact that no single person and no selected group of
> people can speak for the community as a whole. This is one of the big
> challenges all such efforts have to tackle. Representation here is not
> meant in the sense of legal or political representation. But by speaking
> for themselves, we hope that volunteers and staff coming from different
> language communities, holding different roles within the movement and
> bringing different experiences of engagement with the movement into the
> process will at least bring diverse valuable perspectives to the creation
> of the draft for the Universal Code of Conduct.
>
> Before they start drafting, they are already now working their way through
> a reading kit which will make them familiar with the input from the
> movement strategy process as well as prior community consultations our team
> has done at regional Wikimedia conferences and Wikimania as well as through
> facilitated conversations with 19 different language communities. The data
> is published on Meta here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Community_feedback_at_conferences
> and here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Initial_2020_Consultations
> .
> This community feedback will inform the drafting process.
>
> This draft will then be brought to the communities for review starting
> August 24, as outlined in the timeline here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct#Timeline. We are
> still looking for ways to make more people aware of this important part of
> the process. Please spread the word of this upcoming community comment
> period, to help us get wider participation!
>
> I hope the above makes sense to you, looking forward to your engagement
> with the draft end of August and in September,
>
> Christel Steigenberger (she/her)
>
> Trust and Safety Specialist
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> ___
> Wikimedia-l 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee - Call for participation

[Christel Steigenberger]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for coming back to me with this clarifying question and comment.
And sorry for having broken the threading with my previous mail.

The community feedback will be mainly gathered on Meta, but we will try and
reach out to communities on different channels on- and off-wiki to
encourage them to take part in the process. We will also accept comments
that come in through other channels and post them in aggregate form on
Meta, if users are not comfortable going there themselves. While we are
already spending time and energy to prepare for outreach in different
languages, we are also aware of the fact that we cannot do this alone. We
appreciate every bit of help from you and others on the mailing list, to
spread the word that the community comment period will be between August 24
and September 23 and to help us translate the content in more languages
than we alone might be able to do. If you know of good channels to spread
the word, or know about people willing and able to translate the content
into lesser known languages, please let us know!

Within the drafting committee we have people speaking 12 different
languages that I am aware of - and possibly more. Besides English and
Arabic, those are five European, three African and two Indic languages. In
addition we have hired facilitators from the community who speak Arabic,
Georgian, Persian, Russian and Swahili and we will be getting help from the
translator’s pool in our communications department.

Please always feel free to let us know of other ideas to improve the
process for community feedback gathering!

Best regards,
Christel

Christel Steigenberger (she/her)

Trust and Safety Specialist

Wikimedia Foundation 



On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 8:44 PM Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> Hi Christel
> I am glad to hear that, and I hope that proper consultation will occur
> with all potentially affected parties, in places where they can comment and
> point out problems on user friendly or at least familiar software, over at
> least a reasonably representative range of languages, and with sufficient
> time to discuss issues without  an excessively tight deadline.
> Speaking of which, what is the language spread  of the drafting committee?
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Christel Steigenberger
> Sent: 31 July 2020 17:48
> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee -
> Call for participation
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I hear and understand your worries. I’d like to reassure you that we are
> very aware of the fact that no single person and no selected group of
> people can speak for the community as a whole. This is one of the big
> challenges all such efforts have to tackle. Representation here is not
> meant in the sense of legal or political representation. But by speaking
> for themselves, we hope that volunteers and staff coming from different
> language communities, holding different roles within the movement and
> bringing different experiences of engagement with the movement into the
> process will at least bring diverse valuable perspectives to the creation
> of the draft for the Universal Code of Conduct.
>
> Before they start drafting, they are already now working their way through
> a reading kit which will make them familiar with the input from the
> movement strategy process as well as prior community consultations our team
> has done at regional Wikimedia conferences and Wikimania as well as through
> facilitated conversations with 19 different language communities. The data
> is published on Meta here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Community_feedback_at_conferences
> and here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Initial_2020_Consultations
> .
> This community feedback will inform the drafting process.
>
> This draft will then be brought to the communities for review starting
> August 24, as outlined in the timeline here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct#Timeline. We are
> still looking for ways to make more people aware of this important part of
> the process. Please spread the word of this upcoming community comment
> period, to help us get wider participation!
>
> I hope the above makes sense to you, looking forward to your engagement
> with the draft end of August and in September,
>
> Christel Steigenberger (she/her)
>
> Trust and Safety Specialist
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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