Hi Matt, Thanks for working on this. Has the WMF Board approved this procedure for ratifying the Code of Conduct, or is the Board planning to approve the final document? It sounds to me like this is effectively a Terms of Use amendment, so I would expect that it would need a similar level of legal review and Board approval. Also, because this policy appears also to apply to WMF staff, I hope that HR and/or Katherine are in the loop on this.

Pine

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:

We’ve gotten good participation as we’ve worked on sections of the Code of Conduct over the past few months, and have made considerable improvements to the draft based on your feedback.

Given that, and the community approval through the discussions on each section, the best approach is to proceed by approving section-by-section until the last section is done.

So, please continue to improve the Code of Conduct by participating now and as future sections are discussed. When the last section is completed and approved on the talk page, the Code of Conduct will become policy and no longer be marked as a draft.

Also, two more discussions regarding the Code of Conduct have been resolved and incorporated into the draft.

• "Enforcement issues" addressed the reporting process and clarified that

Committee decisions could not be circumvented

• "Marginalized and underrepresented groups" forbids discrimination

Thanks,

Matt Flaschen

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