Movement Charter/Community Consultations/2022/Kashmiri Community

General Information[edit]

Feedback channels: Live meetings, One-to-one meetings, Circulating some Pdf's of text to no Wikimedians, Group discussion.
Number of participants: 8 Wikimedians and some non Wikimedians.
Community: Kashmiri Language Community
Feedback Type: Collective feedback of the community collected during Kashmiri Community Movement Charter Conversations

"The infrastructure supports the technical needs of the movement." should be changed to "The infrastructure supports the technical and other needs of the movement."
"The infrastructure also supports content contributors, readers, and all others who are part of the global Wikimedia movement by promoting and advancing a safe and productive environment in which knowledge can be shared and consumed" should be changed to "The infrastructure also supports content contributors, readers, and all others who are part of the global Wikimedia movement by promoting and advancing a safe, collaborative and productive environment in which knowledge can be shared and consumed"
Suggested wording, "The projects are empowered by WMF on self governance model, with respect to content creation..."

... The content uses multiple breaks which may make it hard to translate precisely. In some cases it may also change the content meaning. Is was suggested to use simple sentences.
It was suggested to change We represent a fact-based, open... sentence to We represent a source-based, open...', Keeping in view, that we mainly provide a source based approach in our contributions.
It was suggested that the Privacy section to be added as a heading as it is one of the main points, which should include both Online and Offline privacy for the Users and other entities and protection of their rights.

According to the feedback of Kashmiri Community, The intentional statements are a good start for the development of Roles and Responsibilities Chapter of Movement Charter.
It was suggested to come up with the definitions of Hubs as soon as possible.
Kashmiri Community suggested that the Roles that need to be modified should be done via a public agreement.
Small Communities should be included into the different roles of the Movement to fill gaps and aim for decentralization and subsidiarity as pointed in 5th statement.

Charter should be written in simple language.
Translations of pages should be available in local language for every pages.
MC Ambassadors program was praised by the Kashmiri Community, to include this small community into the Movement feedback in a better way.
The Vocabulary of MC seems to be very difficult, A simple version should be made available.
One user suggested to get the Charter's local translations available on local projects also.
There were also suggestions about making the local translations as precise as possible, as not all users have such a high level of understanding of English.