Nice to hear about the excitement.
It looks like reading the policy and checking links in the supplied document would take around 45 minutes to do thoroughly, plus joining the meeting with the two WMF teams would take another hour. It is unfortunate that the invitation is with less than 1 days notice, given a single one-hour meeting which will be in the middle of the working day for most volunteers, and as the document is already approved by the board, it seems that anything a volunteer might say regardless how interesting, will have no realistic chance of resulting in any changes being agreed.
Could the management responsible for this extremely short timeline and lack of any previous consultation before approval (the document being made public for the first time only hours before this email today, and only after board approval in secret), explain why this is happening this way, which will put off volunteer comments, and ensure that there will be very little volunteer feedback?
Please ensure it is understood that a lack of volunteers turning up to the meeting tomorrow, is a sign of exclusion by the WMF, not agreement, nor a lack of interest in the issues that may arise from this publication.
Thank you.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 15:25, Richard Gaines rgaines@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the approval of the Human Rights Policy https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Policy#Frequently_Asked_Questions by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/09/what-the-wikimedia-foundations-new-human-rights-policy-means-for-our-movement/ about the policy and what it means for the Wikimedia Foundation’s work in the coming years on Diff. We invite you to join representatives of the Foundation’s Global Advocacy and Human Rights teams here http://meet.google.com/wio-vdkw-phd for a conversation hour tomorrow, 10 December, at 10:00 AM ET (15:00 UTC) to address any immediate concerns, questions, or suggestions regarding this policy or how it will be implemented. The session will be recorded for later viewing and you may submit questions by email to myself (rgaines@wikimedia.org) and Ziski Putz (zputz@wikimedia.org) ahead of or following the conversation hour. Additional conversation hours on this policy will be made available in the coming weeks.
Best regards,
*Ricky Gaines *(he/him/his) Senior Manager, Advocacy Audiences Wikimedia Foundation rgaines@wikimedia.org
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