Monthly Updates – January 2023
Meetings
The Committee was on break until Jan 5th:
- Open weekly meetings: every Thursday
- Regular Committee meetings: 8 and 22 January
- Communications subcommittee: 18 January
- Preamble drafting group: 14, 21 and 28 January
- Values & Principles drafting group: 20 January
- Roles & responsibilities drafting group: 12 and 26 January
- Global Council drafting group: 31 January
Completed work
- Movement Charter community consultation: A summary of the feedback collected in November and December is now available on Meta. The summary highlights the most recurring points in the feedback, and is a quick read. Additionally, there is a detailed feedback document, which includes all the comments collected during the consultation. The Drafting Committee is carefully looking through the detailed feedback, and their responses will be shared by March 2023.
- Planning an online working session: The Committee was planning to meet in-person in Mexico City on 3 - 5 February 2023 to start drafting the next set of chapters on: Roles & Responsibilities, Decision-Making, Global Council and Hubs. Due to uncertainty about the financial situation, the request for the meeting was denied. Consequently, an alternative online working session was planned and designed, with the help of facilitators and the support team, for the same dates. In-person meetings for later in 2023 are also being planned.
Ongoing work & discussion
- Reviewing & responding to the community feedback: The Drafting Committee is in the process of reviewing the community feedback from the last community consultation, and is integrating changes and/or responding to the comments, accordingly.
- Stakeholder conversations: The MCDC had a first direct conversation with Maryana, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, in the bi-weekly meeting on January 22nd, on the topic of the current financial situation of the WMF. Also, the R&R drafting group is scheduling conversations with stakeholders to understand their work, and had their first conversation with representatives of the Stewards UG on January 20th.
- Ratification methodology: A proposal for a ratification methodology of the Movement Charter is being finalized. There is a community consultation on the methodology planned to start in early to mid March 2023 (postponed from February).
- Launching new drafting groups: Three new drafting groups of Movement Charter content started convening or early discussions in January. The three topics they are working on are: Decision-making, Hubs and the Global Council. In addition, the Roles & Responsibilities drafting group is still active.
- Creating a glossary: Some Committee members are coordinating an effort to collect terms that may need further definitions based on the community consultation feedback. The definitions will be compiled in a glossary when the next set of drafts is published in mid 2023, or earlier if feasible.
- Independent legal review: The Committee and the supporting Wikimedia Foundation staff are further looking into the logistics of arranging a legal review independent from the Foundation.