I was also at the Wikimania session where we worked on this draft. I strongly support this effort. Best practices for codes of conduct include clearly defined consequences for breaches, as well as named behaviors that are unacceptable (as not everyone shares the same "common sense", and people interested in behaving badly tend to rules-lawyer as well). Our Phabricator etiquette is lacking both of these, and it does not cover the rest of our technical spaces. An effective code of conduct has been shown to be effective at bringing people from underrepresented groups--and their contributions!--to events and projects. Screening technical contributors by their willingness to take a risk of poor treatment is a terrible idea if we want to get as many good contributions as we can.
-Frances On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thank you for drafting this up, Matt. Who's "we" here? > > On 6 August 2015 at 20:19, Matthew Flaschen <mflasc...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > On 08/06/2015 08:17 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >> > >> We're in the process of developing a code of conduct for technical > >> spaces. This will be binding, and apply to all Wikimedia-related > >> technical spaces (including but not limited to MediaWiki.org, > >> Phabricator, Gerrit, technical IRC channels, and Etherpad). > > > > > > I forgot to mention (but this is in the draft), it also applies to > physical > > spaces, including but not limited to hackathons. > > > > > > Matt Flaschen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Engineering mailing list > > engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > engineer...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
