Hi Richard, thanks. Keen to see what the team is planning.

- Are there any notes from the session earlier today?

- Can you post the policy to Meta, and link it to the [[m:Human Rights Team]]?
- You might seed its discussion page with the current FAQ; people may have other questions. This would be a better place to gather + respond to movement-internal questions, even if a clean static version remains on the foundation-wiki

- The FAQ currently says the policy will be translated (by whom? through the translation dashboard?) and posted on the Governance Wiki. Not everyone realizes that foundation.wikimedia.org was renamed to that so it's a bit confusing -- you might just link to the page where translations will be added.

My primary question: Most of the language of the policy is about freedom from threats, rather than freedom to (create, share, learn, self-govern, protect one's own rights, &c). The free knowledge policy agenda is linked to, but that more often focuses on freedoms to. I'd like to hear how you are thinking about this.

For instance, we could focus all available energy and resources staffing a defense league to protect those who are under threat; or focus on training, empowering, and unblocking active community groups; or on providing them with new avenues for educating individuals and networks so they have the skills and resources to do all of the above.

James + Bodhisattwa:

The stated scope does include starting at home, w/ the rights of community members, staff, and users of the projects; as well as those who might not be able to engage in any of those ways. I encourage you to share ideas you have on how to build a stronger movement, supporting contributors and identifying approaches to and successes in unionization (or other workplace practice) for staffed parts of it. Perhaps here?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 10:26 AM 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 by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post 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 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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