Movement Charter/Community Consultations/2023/Turkic Wikimedians

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Community Consultation

Drafting Committee

General Information

• Feedback channels: Face to face workshop and online (Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023, Istanbul, online meeting and online form)
• Number of participants: Total: 35 (face to face workshop: 22, online meeting: 13)

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)

• Participants stated that in the first question, oversight or review of WMF decisions and both could be possible, and that the target audience should be informed.
• Regarding the committee, participants stated that there is already a council, and having a new committee could increase bureaucracy and lead to various discussions
• On the issue of allocation, participants embraced and supported the idea of consulting the Global Council.
  

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

• Members gave various answers to this question, such as the need for an executive body with an election and advisory board.
• Additionally, the participants agreed that the number of members was 9-13.
  

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?

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.

• Participants argue that there should be no limits on membership. Thus, they think that more members will lead to more diversity.
• For the regional level, participants gave different answers. For example, one participant stated that it should depend on which region the members are more active in, while another participant stated that there should be no limit, and that opportunities should even be given to regions such as Karakalpak Wikipedia.
• They gave almost similar answers to the previous question regarding the home project.
• Should there be a certain upper limit for large language communities, projects or affiliates? While some of the participants said yes to the question, some remained neutral.
• They stated that there should be no restrictions for Global Council membership.
  Other feedback about the draft chapter:

Hubs

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

• According to the feedback we received, some participants argue that there should be a limit, while others argue that there should not be.
• Various answers have been given to this question, such as both it should and it shouldn't. When we asked why it should happen, they stated that it was a controversial situation, so it should happen.

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Roles & Responsibilities

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Glossary

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Miscellaneous feedback

• We asked participants how prepared their communities were for the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy. In our survey out of 5, the average rating is between 2-3. This shows that local communities need to work harder and be more active on the movement strategy.
• We also asked what they did to increase this average. They stated that they generally tried to bring the members together and informed the members about the activities of the communities through their social media accounts.
• It is stated that users should have the simplest information in the simplest language (Translating pages into local languages is an ideal solution for this topic)