Resolution: Revising Universal Code of Conduct, September 2022
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| This resolution was approved on September 8, 2022 |
Whereas, stakeholders within the Wikimedia movement raised significant concerns about a Note attached to section 3.1 of the Universal Code of Conduct;
Whereas, the Community Affairs Committee requested staff review of the community conversation about the Note;
Whereas, staff have recommended that the Note be removed, based on the consensus of the community discussion as well as their own evaluation;
Now, therefore, it is:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Trustees approves removal of the Note attached to section 3.1 of the Universal Code of Conduct.
- Approve
- Nataliia Tymkiv (Chair), Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Vice Chair), Luis Bitenourt-Emilio, Tanya Capuano, Victoria Doronina, Dariusz Jemielniak, Lorenzo Losa, Raju Narisetti, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Jimmy Wales
- Not present
- Esra'a Al Shafei (Vice Chair)
References
- Resolution:Approval of a Universal Code of Conduct
- Community discussion of Note on Meta-wiki
- Report on Voter Feedback from Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines Ratification (Section: "UCoC text is discriminatory")
- Open Letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions"