Talk:Movement Strategy/Recommendations/Provide for Safety and Inclusion: Difference between revisions

A Universal Code of Conduct (now in disguise as "Code of Conduct") has been discussed at enormous length and without collecting strong support, but here it is. See this specific talk page for examples. Meanwhile, what has happened to the most supported of all proposals, Terms of Use for the WMF? EddieHugh (talk) 20:22, 15 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

The Wikimedia world is more than English Wikipedia and english speaking persons that is active in the discussion you refer to. And I am very glad to see that the workgroups behind these recommendations have a much broader background and be more representative for the movement. From my small community we welcome this recommendation and a Code of Conduct. And why do you single out WMF? It will become one of many resource centres around the world in the "new" Wikimedia Movement.Yger (talk) 09:12, 16 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

Hi Eddie. What I observe in the en.wp discussions of universal codes of conduct is two things. First, a belief that existing English Wikipedia policies and processes are adequate to prevent harassment and make the project welcoming to newcomers. Second, a strong level of mistrust in the WMF as an organisation from those community members who are commenting. The recommendations do disagree with the first, but they also aim to address the second. If you look at the other recommendations, things like a Movement Charter and Global Council are aimed at (among other things), clarifying expectations about how entities like WMF interact with volunteer communities, as well as providing structures for community feedback to the WMF, and (as Yger points out) also gradually moving some responsibilities away from the WMF to other entities. Chris Keating (The Land) (talk) 10:06, 16 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

I didn't mention the English Wikipedia. I was referring to the discussions that have been reported and taken place here on metawiki. And I didn't single out the WMF either. The proposal to have terms of use for the WMF attracted the most support, and almost no opposition, during the discussions here, yet it has been ignored. I appreciate your middle-grounding, Chris, but who will decide what the relationship between the WMF et al. and the volunteers becomes? EddieHugh (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

Please look through the persons taken part "in the discussion on meta". I see (more or less) only users from English Wikipedia. Being from another community and being non-native in English I never engage in those type of discussion, and I am not alone feeling very uneasy (intimidated) taking part, both because of the language but also the tone. Actually in our community we never use RFC at all, we just discuss an issue. And I see the aggressive tone from Enwp toward WMF, as against the values I see a central to the movement: respect and basic decency.Yger (talk) 14:32, 16 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

I haven't checked where the contributors to that do most of their editing. You might have missed the section in German, complaining about the proposal not being in other languages, and later sections that are also in German. And it's not an RfC; it's the normal discussion page of a content page that was started by a WMF employee. And suggesting that English Wikipedia has been disrespectful towards the WMF is... I'll be polite and just say 'the wrong way round' (and that has been publicly acknowledged by WMF employees). EddieHugh (talk) 21:50, 16 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

@Yger: At the "Terms of Use for the WMF" discussion: Of the 53 people who commented there, only 15 were from the English Wikipedia, which is very much disproportionately few, given that 42% of all active Wikipedia editors are from ENWP. 32 were from DEWP, two from Wikidata, one each from PTWP, NLWP, and ROWP, and me (no idea what project to categorize myself under). Consensus was unanimous. --Yair rand (talk) 19:09, 17 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for correcting my mistake.Yger (talk) 19:35, 17 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

As predicted, during the supposed 'community consultations', the decision to go ahead was taken a long time ago. Formal announcement. EddieHugh (talk) 11:47, 23 May 2020 (UTC) Reply

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