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Update[edit]

Today I have completed the first run through of the wiki governance audit. For several months now I have known that this is going to be my final project on the Wikimedia global scale and that I will be cutting back on my contributions globally and focusing on the English Wikipedia where I started in 2005.

I hope that this venue continues in some form. The templates made it a bit clunky, and database reports could do a lot of it. (Also I don't think I once found a privacy violating script - I think this is checked through some other method; and, auditing big wikis was probably a waste of time.) I also did it alone. My original plan was to socialize this a bit more, but all sorts of scheduling issues led to bursts of activity and then long periods of inactivity, which is not ideal for trying to coordinate with others.

While statistics are still coming in, here is where they stand now:

  • 1 steward removed
  • 2 CU rights removed
  • 1 OS right removed
  • 37 admins removed
  • 6 bureaucrats removed
  • 1 importer removed
  • 1368 pages deleted
  • 1 global bot removed
  • 120 wikis added to global bots
  • 130 wikis added to global message delivery
  • 1 wiki proposed for closure

I want to think all the local and global users who fulfilled the multitude of requests that made this project possible.

It has now been roughly 10 years since I started becoming more active globally, including 1 year as a steward. Now more than ever, it is important to have a freely available source of information about our world, and as we saw with the Croatian Wikipedia and other recent cases, what happens on a global Wikimedia scale can have impacts on real life. I am grateful to the Wikimedia community for letting a mostly English-only administrator from California contribute to the project in this way, both as a steward and in the years that followed.

While I still foresee making edits and requests (and maybe votes) on Meta if there is a need, I will be cutting back my participation on Meta for the foreseeable future. Other commitments in my life have increased, and I am struggling to keep up with all these other wikis. I also feel that my experience as a former steward is becoming out of date, since I have not been a steward now for over 7 years and do not intend to become one again. I will continue as an administrator and editor on the English Wikipedia, which is also requiring more of the time that I have for Wikimedia projects.

Best wishes, Rschen7754 07:13, 28 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter[edit]

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--11:34, 21 March 2023 (UTC).

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter[edit]

Committee's meeting in New York, in early March.

Coming up:

  • Revised chapters: The Committee is preparing to publish the revised draft chapters of The Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities intentions statement, based on the community feedback received in November and December 2022.
  • Inviting advisors and experts: The Committee is preparing to welcome a number of advisors from outside the Committee. All interested Wikimedians were invited to apply earlier (you can still apply here!). Additionally, the Committee is planning and scheduling meetings with individuals with specific sets of expertise in various topics, including stewards, movement committees, Wikimedia Foundation and affiliate staff, and others.

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--19:18, 15 April 2023 (UTC).

Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter[edit]

Updates:

  • Charter Ratification Methodology proposal conversations: The Movement Charter Drafting Committee recently held the first conversations regarding the ratification methodology for the Movement Charter. The MCDC has received valuable feedback from different communities and the Committees during the community input period. The report of the community input will be shared in May, while the updated version of the ratification methodology will be presented between September and November 2023.
  • Communication evaluation: The Communications sub-committee of the MCDC together with the support staff conducted an evaluation of the communications. The Communications sub-committee appreciates the time and input of the community members who shared their opinions during the interviews. Several recommendations are going to be implemented in the upcoming period based on the valuable input.
  • Learn about the MCDC’s work in April: The MCDC continues to draft additional chapters: The Global Council, Hubs, Decision-making and Roles & Responsibilities. Alongside the drafting work, the MCDC is planning their in-person meeting scheduled for 2-4 June in Utrecht, Netherlands with the aim of advancing the charter's content.

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Movement Charter Drafting Committee's monthly newsletter[edit]

This newsletter combines content from both June and July, due to a delay in sharing out the previous newsletter.

Updates:

  • Learn about MCDC’s work in May & June: as usual, the update includes information about the meetings held by the Committee in this month, as well as about the work that was completed and the ongoing work & discussions.

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--12:25, 30 July 2023 (UTC).