Thank you Maggie and Natascha. Now you can also find the Italian translation.
Camelia On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 7:57 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear Maggie, > > Thank you for this public statement, our francophone team has just > translated the meta version into French. I hope that it gets translated in > all languages so that LGBTIQ+ persons can feel valued and supported in our > movement. > > Warm regards, > > Nattes à chat > > Le 8 déc. 2020 à 16:24, Maggie Dennis <mden...@wikimedia.org> a écrit : > > Hello. > > My name is Maggie Dennis. I’m the Vice President of Community Resilience > and Sustainability at the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] I oversee the > Foundation’s Trust and Safety teams (operations and policy), the Community > Development team, and the upcoming Foundation Human Rights lead. > > On December 2nd, I met with representatives of the Wikimedia LGBT+ User > Group along with several Trust and Safety personnel, including Global Head > Jan Eißfeldt, to understand some of the challenges faced by the members of > the group as volunteers in our international movement.[2] It is apparent > that many volunteers openly identifying as LGBTQIA+ are targeted and > attacked for their identities, with transgender, non-binary, queer, and > queer feminist editors in particular at higher risk for such abuse. The > members of the group who met with us voiced concerns about the safety and > wellbeing of other marginalized communities and groups as well. > > In my role, and speaking for the Foundation, I am writing today to > restate, reinforce, and firmly assert our commitment to supporting the > LGBTQIA+ volunteers in our movement, as well as others who face exclusion > and hostility on the basis of identity factors.[3] > > The Wikimedia movement is based on the value of inclusivity, that anyone > may play a part in not only receiving but curating and sharing knowledge. > What volunteers have been able to accomplish in Wikimedia projects is > extraordinary, but the movement will never reach its full potential if we > do not close the diversity gap which our communities defined so ably in the > Movement Strategy process.[4] There continue to be barriers in our movement > for LGBTQIA+, women, indigenous communities, and other underrepresented > groups. We as a movement have been called upon by a broad and diverse group > of our own movement members to promote inclusivity and reduce harms to our > participants. > > In light of this, one of my teams has been directed by the Board of > Trustees to (among other requests) facilitate the drafting of the Universal > Code of Conduct called for in the Movement Strategy recommendations.[5] > This collaboratively drafted document underwent significant community > review in September and October and is currently under review by the Board. > We will next be launching a second phase of that work in January, meant to > result in enforcement pathways that will make our projects safe spaces for > all volunteers. > > Following the LGBT+ User Group meeting, we are also building into our > plans facilitated support for the LGBT+ User Group and other Wikimedia > affiliate organizations focused on marginalized communities to come > together to discuss better mechanisms for supporting volunteers who are > targeted on the basis of sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, > ethnicity or other identify factors. We expect to solidify plans and launch > conversations in January and will be putting out information on how to > participate. > > In addition, we see the urgency and the opportunity to do more to address > the needs of the LGBT+ User Group and others. The Foundation’s Community > Resilience & Sustainability function will be connecting more closely with > the LGBT+ User Group going forward to ensure that the Foundation’s staff > better understand the needs of this community, especially but not solely in > our professional Trust & Safety work. > > We are committed to supporting volunteers in participating safely in our > movement and want to be sure that we do not, through lack of understanding, > ourselves do harm. This includes: > > - adopting and disseminating to staff best-practice terminology when > conducting community surveys, > - ensuring that volunteers have easier access to existing reporting > structures now, even as we build other enforcement pathways in the UCoC, > - being vigilant that incidents where individuals are targeted for > identity factors are properly recognized and addressed in our Trust & > Safety systems, and > - exploring peer support options. > > > I thank the members of the user group for inviting us to join them. I’m > excited and energized by that conversation and looking forward to finding > ways to improve. I hope others in the community will join in the publicly > hosted UCoC discussions starting early in the new year to improve the > safety of all community members. It will help to ensure that volunteers > across the movement, and in all movement spaces online and off, have an > opportunity to contribute safely. People should feel welcomed to contribute > to our collective and important mission of delivering the sum of all > knowledge to everyone. > > Warm regards, > Maggie Dennis > > P.S. This statement is also on Meta, at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/2020_December_Foundation_commitment_of_support_for_LGBT%2B_volunteers, > where translation is being enabled today. If you are interested in helping > translate, please do! > > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/Portal > [3] I’m borrowing the language of the UN, here: > https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/UN%20Strategy%20and%20Plan%20of%20Action%20on%20Hate%20Speech%2018%20June%20SYNOPSIS.pdf > . > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Provide_for_Safety_and_Inclusion > > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Draft_review > > -- > Maggie Dennis > Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, < > mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe > <wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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