Movement Charter/Community Consultations/2023/Manokwari Wikimedian Community by Arcuscloud

Movement Charter

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Community Consultation

Drafting Committee

General Information

• Feedback channels: Live meeting & WhatsApp
• Number of participants: 7

Feedback

Global Council

Open Questions regarding Fund Dissemination

• What role should the Global Council have in fund dissemination?
  • Oversight or review of WMF decisions
  • Coordination with WMF
  • Other (please elaborate)
• Should there be a committee that reports to the Global Council and handles central/cross-regional fund dissemination?
• What should be the Global Council’s role with regards to the allocation of the funds within the WMF?
  • The Global Council should be consulted on the allocation of the funds within the WMF.
  • The Global Council should have no role in the allocation of the funds within the WMF and only be informed.
  • Other (please elaborate)

• Global Council should take as Oversighter or reviewer of WMF decisions. Coordinating with WMF should be responsibility of affiliates or hubs.
• Yes, it should be a committe to report to the Global Council and handles central/cross-regional fund dissemination. Creating a committe that focus certain region would be good since people on region have their own culture and characteristics and their needs may be understood by contributors (if contributors become comittee) from same region.
• Global Council's role as provider for strategic rules (such as issues worked on in grant applications) instead of dealing with technical matters such as grant allocation.

Open Questions regarding Structure

• Should the Global Council exist only as an executive body or should it exist as an executive body with an advisory board? (See scenarios below)
  • If the Global Council is an executive body with an advisory board, how are the members of both entities (executive body and advisory board) seated?
• With its size, the Global Council must have adequate diversity and clout, but not be so large as to undermine effectiveness. As an executive body, how many members should the Global Council have?
  • Option 1: 9-13 members
  • Option 2: 17-21 members

• Option 2: 17-21 members

Open Questions regarding Membership

With an intention to ensure fair representation, power balance, and promote diversity and inclusivity within the Global Council, we seek your inputs on the following:

1. Should there be some imposed limits to the membership in terms of movement representation?

No

Please share your opinions about potential criteria of such limits:

1. Should there be a regional cap, e.g. max 3 persons from a single region? If yes, please specify the condition.
2. Should there be a home project or entity cap, e.g. max 2 persons from a single wiki project or affiliate? If yes, please specify the condition.
3. Should there be a specific cap for large language communities, projects, or affiliates, e.g. not more than 5 seats from between the 5 largest projects? If yes, please specify the condition.
4. Should there be any other limits for Global Council membership? If yes, please specify the condition.

• Yes, it would be better to limit person in a single region so that the process of decision making are equal in every regions.
• No, it depends on the category of the project/entity being presented.
• For languages and affiliations there must be limits to balance the regions represented, but for projects there doesn't have to be any limits, depending on how big the project being represented is.

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Hubs

Community Question: Should there be a limit to how many hubs an affiliate can join? (Please elaborate on your answer.)

It should not be any limit how many hubs an affiliate can join, because affiliate could represent their region or thematic to wider community.

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Roles & Responsibilities

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Glossary

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