Talk:Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020/Participants/List
? REPRESENTS and/or ...[edit]
"Represents" makes it sound as if the participant would have to be selected or authorized by the community, and that indeed was the case for past events (which had a stricter participation limit due to budgets) but it's unclear whether that is the case now. --Tgr (talk) 09:20, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
- I agree it is a bit confusing. Maybe representatives should be explicit only if they present on behalf specific entity, rather then as individuals. --Zblace (talk) 19:44, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Tgr and Zblace:
Done I have rephrased it. Thank you for pointing out.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 13:40, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Tgr and Zblace:
!ELIGIBILITY and safety...[edit]
"Every individual contributor from the Wikimedia movement (not only from the CEE communities) with a Wikimedia account can participate in the online conference." ... this sounds like radically open and unsafe. I think users that have been banned on different projects or have history of toxic behavior should have limited access. Same for users with new accounts and no previous engagements. If there is no specific protocol for registration of participants, no technical moderation in place (or described) and no safety measures in place - than the event basically relies just on good fortune? Maybe I sound paranoid, but better safe then sorry. --Zblace (talk) 19:58, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Zblace: Thank you for raising questions around this kind of stuff. We imposed more restrictive eligibility criteria for participation in the poll on determining the dates of the online event, where only registered users from a CEE community with a Wikimedia account older than six months and at least 500 edits were allowed to vote. This was purposely done in order to prevent manipulation of multiple accounts in order to influence the outcome. However, imposing such restrictions for participation in an online event is too much and they do not even exist at in-person events. As for the safety, all participants will have to abide by the friendly space policies in a similar way as at in-person meetings. Furthermore, although the registration process seems open and potentially invites users with toxic behaviour, the organisers will check if the list of registered participants contains blakclisted names and deprive them from participation. Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 14:04, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
- I can understand that approach but think there should be also proactive and pre-emptive measures, even if only based on request of people proposing sessions that could and should be done in safer space and with clear consensus of all participating. In that respect BerlinCodeOfConduct.org is much better than the current ones in Wikimedia *(technical) spaces. --Zblace (talk) 10:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- I will take a look at the Berlin Code of Conduct and propose changes in that direction. Thank you for sharing it. Best.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 07:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
- I can understand that approach but think there should be also proactive and pre-emptive measures, even if only based on request of people proposing sessions that could and should be done in safer space and with clear consensus of all participating. In that respect BerlinCodeOfConduct.org is much better than the current ones in Wikimedia *(technical) spaces. --Zblace (talk) 10:34, 23 August 2020 (UTC)