Movement Charter
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The Movement Charter will be a document defining roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including laying out a new Global Council for movement governance. The Movement Charter is a Movement Strategy priority.[1] A broad ratification process is expected for its adoption.
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“ | According to the strategy recommendations,[2] the Movement Charter would:
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Enforcing Movement organizations' compliance with the Charter will be the responsibility of the Global Council.
Timeline[edit]
This is a preliminary timeline. Although it broadly shows the steps involved in creating the Movement Charter, dates may be changed later on. Those changes will be potentially made to avoid rushing the process, especially when consulting with the community and other stakeholders, which is hard to limit within a fixed timeframe.
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November 2021 - January 2022 |
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February - October 2022 |
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November 2022 - January 2023 | Call for review and amendments for all stakeholders |
February - March 2023 | Reflecting upon feedback and revising of MCDC text |
June - July 2023 | Second batch of the Movement Charter drafts published for review
The second batch will include the following chapters: Decision-making, Hubs, The Global Council and Roles & Responsibilities. |
July - December 2023 | Review for all stakeholders |
Extra cycles: If all is well, we can move to ratification. If not, there will be another 3 month cycle for revising the text, 2 months for review, and so on. | |
January - March 2024 | Ratification process for the Movement Charter |
January - March 2024 | Conversations regarding the set up of the next identified governance structure |
April - June 2024 | Set up and selection process of the next identified governance structure |
Process[edit]
The Movement Charter will have 3 key steps:
- Define the people to work on the Charter (Drafting Group)
- Define and develop the content of the Charter (Charter content)
- Define the ways for consensus-building and ratification (Ratification)
Further reading[edit]
- Monthly Updates of the Drafting Committee
- Drafting committee proposal by the Wikimedia Foundation (2021)
- Summary of 27 June 2021 Global Conversations
- Report of 12-13 June 2021 Global Conversations
- Summary of the 31 May 2021 design conversation
- Movement roles project: Charter (2011)
- Roles & Responsibilities recommendations: Scenario in Strategy iteration 2 - Earlier overview of the Movement Charter concept (2019)
- Roles & Responsibilities recommendations 4&5 in Strategy iteration 2 -- Earlier draft of the Strategy proposal to introduce a Movement Charter (2019)
- Drafting proposal meeting notes (2021)
- Movement Charter Ambassadors Program