Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Working Groups/Community Health/Minutes/2019-04-18

29 April

Connecting with Diversity Working Group

• Rosie invited Susun Wilkinson from the Diversity Working Group, to share  intersections like guidelines for online projects, having a safe environment for online events (including events not funded by WMF).
• Although both Diversity and Community Health Working Groups have not yet started developing recommendations about these topics WMF has a universal CoC as part of the mid-term plan which includes the above mentioned areas.
• Diversity and Community Health Working Groups will have deep-diving, and could have joint solutions on recommendations.

Update on Steering Group call April 23

• Sandra made some notes from the Steering Group call, a key highlight was a change in the timeline for the process, with synchronisation to happen in September.
  • This is meant to meet the needs of the Working Groups to carry out research, surveys, community and Wikimania enrichment as recommendations are being formulated.

Timeline check - engaging groups and experts

• Cash rewards might de-motivate the community, and the Core Team will follow the Foundation’s guidelines for motivation and rewarding involvement instead of paying volunteers to do any work.
• Hiring consultants, researchers to support the work is possible since it’s a different arrangement that usually requires a contract to be signed.
  • Some of the experts who are part of the Movement might not require a monetary compensation, while others, especially from smaller organizations, might do.

22 April

Finalising the list of experts

Rationale needs to be explained for the inclusion of names for the experts.

Survey Progress

The Survey was finalised, but there’s need for more details on whether Survey results will be used as Primary material for recommendations or the Scoping documents.

In-person meeting progress

Most of the Working Group members have filled the travel template, but two members can not travel for the in-person meeting.

Channels for Community Conversations

Discussions happening outside Meta, like in the Spanish Community need to be brought back to the Working Group?

• Strategy Liaisons will report back to the Core Team and relevant Working Groups regarding the Community Conversations.
• Information from Strategy Saloons, focused interviews need to be provided well in advance of the In-person meetings for the Working Group to make sense.
  • Input from the Communities that are not actively participating is also needed for diversity of voices.
• Increase the frequency/touch points for the community conversations to all the Working Groups.
• The design has been open to include members from different movements and organisations. Working Group members are encouraged to find members/experts from such organisations and movements.

15 April

Discussion around Sydney’s presentation:

The on-wiki consultation on meta is in English, but the responses can be provided in any language. Volunteers have been requested to take this up in local languages (time engagement of 3 hours for translation).

• In touch with Train the Trainer event exclusively for Women
• Request participation from members of the Community Health Working Group.

Sydney Poore highlighted key areas of the User reporting system consultation

• Word cloud has been generated by the internal stakeholders meeting (various components of people working with the Wikimedia Foundation including Trust and Safety, Product and Design, Legal team) to produce higher quality reports that can be successfully processed without alienating the victim.
• The User Reporting System has two major components: Tech and Social component with objectives to define;
  • The essential components of a user reporting system, and which of these are missing from the current method of handling cases of harassment.
  • Building one or more features.
  • Public and private aspects of the user reporting system
  • Important open questions that the product team should investigate and test prior to starting development?

In person meeting

• The participation of the Core Team is dependent on the interest of the Working Group members, but Wikimedia Foundation member presence is required for Trust and Safety as advised by the travel team.
• The Working Groups’ sprint changed schedule, will not affect Community Health Working Group in deciding the in person meeting, which should function as the main drafting event for recommendations.

Timeline progress

The Process of identifying the key questions from our scoping document and finalising the experts will be an important task which will also help in identifying the methodology for the Community Health Working Group.

8 April

Review of the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin

A general consensus was that the Summit was very productive, mainly for the Community Working Group: people engaged with the topics and themes, although there was no much interaction between Community health and the rest of the Working Groups, which will be a key focus in the coming months.

Documents as a basis for further work

The important part of the scoping document are the questions, making them simpler, and finding the answers to the questions, the working group can refer to the cluster documents and results of the interviews held at the Summit in Berlin. Focus of future work of the group is to advance with the scoping document, not the cluster documents.

Gender mapping group survey and further process

The Working Group is designing a survey to a specific gender mapping group, and might consider creating one for the broader community. If there’s need of any tools or translation into various languages, they can send a request to the Core Team.

New schedule for meetings

Meetings and office hours will be altered via the ABBA-schedule (A=UTC 16:00, B=UTC 14:00) every Monday, the next regular call will be at 14:00 UTC, next office hour at 14:00.