Translations:Universal Code of Conduct/Initial 2020 Consultations/Hindi/9/en

In the Hindi community, most of the discussions take place in the village pumps (चौपाल). But it has been observed that the Hindi community does not usually engage in Foundation led discussions, or discussions about subjects that are not directly related to Hindi Wikis. Users of Hindi Wikis do not come forward for open discussions. They hesitate in expressing their views directly on Village pump or on the wiki. This is the case with all the editors regardless of whether they are old/senior editors or newbies. However, if the proposed discussions are about ‘editing’ or user rights, the community members engage heavily in the discussions. Even topics like ‘Auto patrolled users' or common 'spelling mistakes' get a high amount of attention. But, somehow this is not the case with ‘conduct’ discussions.

For the facilitation process, a call for a discussion about Ucoc was made on Hindi wiki village pump, Hindi Wikipedians user group talk page and Hindi Wikiversity village pump. But all these three posts together generated only one comment which also not a comment on the project but a request for a private one-to-one chat on the subject.

A few more users agreed to have one-to-one conversations about the project. They felt more comfortable in having either telephonic conversations or in-person meetings for discussions. Thus, I scheduled direct calls with senior editors, explained to them the idea behind UCoC, and shared the meta page on the subject for them for their further reading. I gave them a few days to go through all the information so that they could come back to me later, with organised opinions. Some folks shared valuable insights. However, the response rate was very low because many of the people I interacted with were dealing with personal issues raised by COVID-19 situation. I had to make multiple calls to get responses.