Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is an enforcement structure dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC).

Policies, procedures and processes that guide the U4C’s work are defined in the Charter which was developed by a Building Committee and was ratified through a movement-wide vote in January-February 2024.

More in detail, functions and responsibilities of the Committee are described in Sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the Charter.

According to the charter, the U4C:

• Handles complaints and appeals in the circumstances outlined in the Enforcement Guidelines, including but not limited to:
  • Lack of local self-governance capacity to enforce the UCoC;
  • Consistent local decisions that conflict with the UCoC;
  • Refusal of local self-governance structures and teams to enforce the UCoC;
  • Lack of resources or lack of will to address issues that prevent the adequate enforcement of the UCoC through local self-governance processes;
• Performs any investigations necessary to resolve said complaints and appeals;
• Provides resources for communities on UCoC best practices, such as material for mandatory trainings, quality assurances for training resources created by movement members and organizations that go beyond the basic UCoC training material the U4C itself oversees, and other resources as needed;
• Provides a final interpretation of the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and the UCoC if the need arises, in collaboration with community members enforcement structures;
• Assesses the effectiveness of UCoC enforcement and provides recommendations for improvement.

Note Note: The U4C will not take cases that do not primarily involve violations of the UCoC, or its enforcement.

The U4C is also responsible for organizing the annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and its Enforcement Guidelines.

Users who would like to contact the committee may do so by emailing u4c(_AT_)wikimedia.org.

Regional seats:

• Latin America and Caribbean
• Central and East Europe (CEE)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• South Asia

Community at large seats:

• 4 vacant seats

Please note: No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki.

Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee members are added to a custom u4c-member global group, which grants them the ability to view abuse filters, deleted content, and IP address information on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis. Specifically, the group provides the following permissions:

• View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
• View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
• View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
• View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
• View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
• Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
• View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
• Enable two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable)
• View hidden abuse log entries (abusefilter-hidden-log)
• Retrieve information about IP addresses attached to revisions or log entries (ipinfo)
• View IP addresses used by temporary accounts (checkuser-temporary-account)

• User groups
• Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

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