Yes, says Maggie.
It was passed by the board, and became enforceable at that time. The many objections that have been brought out since do not reflect a consensus.
Question at 17:30
More UCoC at 11:40
(I’ll look at the rest later, here is a preliminary transcript.)
11:40
Vivian Chang: “Then we move on to the next question. We have a few questions related to UCoC. And there’s one directly with UCoC guidelines. So the question says ‘I hear there will be some revisions to the UCoC enforcement guidelines. What’s the timeline for the enforcement guidelines revision and how can I get my viewpoints heard by the revision committee and will there be a chance to weigh in after the draft changes are made.'”
Maggie Dennis: “I’m going to ask Stella, who is the manager – the senior manager of Trust and Safety Policy to weigh in on that.”
Stella Ng: “Happy to weigh in. UCoC is my favorite topic. All right Vivian if you could paste the question in the chat I’m going to go through it and answer it piece by piece. All right, so first off, hi everyone we haven’t met. My name’s Stella I am the senior manager of the Trust & Safety team, currently located in San Francisco my pronouns are she her and I’ll get started with the timeline question. So currently we take a step back revisions committee which is built up of community members phase one and phase two are currently together going through decision making exercises and adjusting feedback from the community votes cussion that happened during the vote. In terms of drafting they will get started shortly. Um in order for community members to provide feedback in terms of where to do it my teammate Patrick Early is going and dropping some useful links into the chat we have two discussions open on meta asking questions of the community themes that were identified from the community vote, if you guys have any questions about the themes and what was identified, Rosie sent out an email Wikimedia-L identifying what those found themes were. I will drop the link to the meta page for that as well as the email subject line so everyone can take a look. Patrick I’ll pass the mic over to you if I forgot anything and then I’ll pass the mic to Maggie if there is anything she would like to add on.”
Patrick Early: “One thing I’ll add is the part of the question about will the community be able to discuss the revised changes and get feedback at that stage and I know a lot of people find it easier to discuss these things when there’s something proposed uh rather than ahm being a bit more conceptual or abstract before they’re proposed and the answer of course is yes and we’ll be publishing a detailed timeline as soon as we can we’re just working with the board to make sure we’re all aligned on what the timeline should look like. Ahm we’ll definitely be having an open facilitated period to look at the proposed changes revisions committee is working on and discuss them so yeah they’ll be a good process there uh to make sure ahhhm whether you want to weigh in now and then definitely do if you have time and information ahm but ahm if you wait for the proposed changes there will also be an opportunity there but don’t wait as the revisions committee would love to hear from you now it makes their job easier to understand the sentiments before they actually propose some changes ahm but ahm yah I think that’s all I wanted to add there. I just want to add a note that the board CAC asked folks to take a look at the original policy COC policy and one specific area of policy that has brought up um brought up some criticism some concern and so there’s a discussion aboot what is known as “the note” [gestures quotation marks in the air] harassments section ahm so I’ll drop a link to that as well I don’t know a discussion on that and that’s about it.”
Maggie Dennis: “Thank you Patrick I do have just a little bit I want to add so I don’t know if all of you saw it, that after the decision was announced to do some revisions there was an open call from an affiliate to avoid delaying unnecessarily actually getting all this in process um I want to say I heard that and I respect that. We are wanting to make sure that the enforcement guidelines work for the community members who have to apply them but we do want to remain committed to keeping the process going I will say that myself am very mindful of the topics that were identified were comments that were voiced from among the minority of contributors to the poll who did not think the enforcement guidelines were ready to go right now. The majority of responders thought they were safe to try as they were, but a significant enough minority identified concerns and specific concerns that it was well worth exploring. I want to make sure that those people who want to were happy with the guidelines as they are understand though we’re not assuming that that significant minority represented consensus. So come in, agree, tell us it is consensus, disagree, help find consensus, help make it as good as you can because this is something that we will all be using to try to hopefully try to make a better run system and again we will be changing it going forward but we need as good a system as we can to see how it works preliminarily. Okay Vivian.
17:30
Vivian Chang: “Thank you Maggie and the next question is related to the enforcement of the UCOC itself…Is the Universal Code of Conduct currently being enforced the UCoC guidelines being revised…is the UCoC still enforceable.”
Maggie Dennis: “Yes so the UCoC was ratified in December 20 I think, Stella, Patrick, is that right? Anyway it was ratified…”
Patrick Early: “February 20-21, sorry”
Maggie Dennis: “Okay anyway, it was ratified some time ago and has been operational since its ratification. It has been used by both community members and foundation staff in terms of addressing behavioral issues. I’m aware of some affiliates who have adopted it, for their own spaces even beyond the shared spaces we have and it is operational, for those of you who are wondering what body it’s referenced in the terms of use that when the board passes resolutions that apply to all projects, users agree to abide by them and this is such a resolution.”
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But wait, Stella with the pronouns is “the senior manager of Trust and Safety Policy”? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SNg_(WMF)
No idea how to pronounce that last name.
Well well, they finally got someone with actual qualifications, and not just a degree in drama. https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellang1
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