Movement Charter/Project/is
The Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including to lay out a new Global Council for movement governance.
The Movement Charter is a Movement Strategy priority.
About
The Movement Strategy recommendation of “Ensure Equity in Decision-making” stated that a Movement Charter would:
- Lay the values, principles and policy basis for Movement structures, including the roles and responsibilities of the Global Council, regional and thematic hubs, as well as other existing and new entities and decision-making bodies,
- Set requirements and criteria for decisions and processes that are Movement-wide to be legitimate and trusted by all stakeholders, e.g. for:
- Maintaining safe collaborative environments,
- Ensuring Movement-wide revenue generation and distribution,
- Giving a common direction on how resources should be allocated with appropriate accountability mechanisms.
- Defining how communities work together and are accountable to each other.
- Setting expectations for participation and the rights of participants.
Timeline
This is a dynamic 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.
| Period | Step |
|---|---|
| nóvember 2021―janúar 2022 | Setting up the support systems and internal processes of the Drafting Group Research and information-gathering |
| febrúar 2022―október 2022 | Research and information-gathering Creating the initial draft of the Charter content in conversation with all stakeholders |
| nóvember 2022 | First batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters (Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities statement of intent) published |
| nóvember 2022―janúar 2023 | Community consultation on the first batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters |
| febrúar 2023―mars 2023 | Reflecting upon feedback and revising of the first batch of the draft chapters |
| apríl 2023 | Community consultation on the Movement Charter ratification methodology proposal |
| apríl 2023―júlí 2023 | Drafting the second batch of Movement Charter draft chapters |
| júlí 2023 | Second batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters (Hubs, Global Council, Roles & Responsibilities and Glossary) published |
| júlí 2023―september 2023 | Community consultation on the second batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters |
| september 2023―desember 2023 | MCDC consultations at local events |
| nóvember 2023―mars 2024 | Review of feedback and second iteration drafting of full Movement Charter |
| 2 apríl 2023 | First version of the full Movement Charter published |
| apríl 2024 | Community engagement on the full charter draft |
| maí 2024―júní 2024 | Finalization of the full charter text based on community feedback Preparation for the ratification vote of the Movement Charter |
| 10 júní 2024 | Publication of the final version of the Movement Charter text |
| 25 júní 2024―9 júlí 2024 | Ratification vote for the Movement Charter |
