Hi everyone
I wanted to follow up on Zack’s email with an update and links to the
naming survey resources published today:
The naming survey report is now available.[1] Thank you to everyone who
provided feedback. To learn more about what naming elements should be
removed, refined and recombined please view the full report.[2]
We are looking forward to collaborating with you again next year.
Samir and the Brand Project Team
[1]
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Brand Associate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 11:43 PM Olga Lidia Paredes Alcoreza <
olga.lidi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank U!
El mié., 30 de septiembre de 2020 15:55, Zack McCune <
zmccune(a)wikimedia.org>
escribió:
Thank you María!
Following this Board resolution, the Brand Project team will be updating
the project hub. [1] We will also release the Naming Survey results as
both a report and as the anonymized data by October 6. The publication of
those materials will be shared on the project hub and announced here.
Cheers,
- Zack, Essie, and Samir (the Brand Project team)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:51 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for hearing the voices, María and members of the board.
>
> Defining common goals is the best practice for reaching to the best
> solution.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Galder
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> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution to pause Movement Brand Project
through
> March 2021
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, following the
recommendation
of
staff, has resolved to pause the Movement Brand
Project until the next
calendar year.[1] We recognize that much of the Wikimedia movement’s
activities, events, and key collaborations have been put on hold or
restructured due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we have received formal
requests to pause Movement Brand Project activities to reflect this
need.[2]
The Board remains persuaded that there is potential value in making
change
> to our branding system in service of our goals of engaging more people
in
our
mission. However, we also know that change moves at the speed of
trust.
> We have asked staff to meaningfully engage with community concerns and
> address the request for equitable decision-making within the process.
We
also ask
members of the community to use this pause to consider how
equity
may ask us to let go of some aspects of our past,
in order to create
space
for what could be. Making these decisions
together, with so many
passionate
perspectives, will be challenging, but building
this capacity is
essential
for how we grow together as a thriving global
movement.
In the meantime, we will establish a small ad-hoc Board committee to
liaise
> with staff, and develop a process of collaboration and decision-making
> appropriate for the Movement’s brand. This committee will constitute
> Trustees James Heilman, Raju Narisetti, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov. We
> hope and intend for this committee to include a small number of
community
representatives from affiliates, open letter signatories, and emerging
communities, and Foundation staff to be designated by the Executive
Director. We’ll update you with more details on the committee soon.
In 2021, using insights and recommendations gleaned through the ad-hoc
committee, the Brand Project team will restart collaboration and
communicate next steps accordingly. This resolution was ratified on
September 24, 2020.
Kind regards,
María Sefidari
[1]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Pause_of_Brand_Development…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_renaming
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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