Hi/Bona vesprada,
Without meaning at all that I do not respect the results of this voting, I would like to
call the attention to the fact that out of 3097 votes, practically 2000 are circumscribed
to only 4 big home wikis: en.wiki (1000), de.wiki (500), fr.wiki (200) and es.wiki (150).
Imho it is somehow concerning that 2/3 of the votes of such a key policy are heavily
relying on the weight of those major projects. I understand the constraints in
participation, but it isn't either a trivial value -considering how much do we read
about the WMF efforts to promote the so-called “Global South” communities and the minority
language wikis.
There is a great essay on English Wikipedia, ["Wikipedia:Silence does not imply
consent when drafting new
policies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silence_does_not_imply_co…quot;,
that has a very thoughtful background and that I like very much to remind: "Silence
implies consensus" is an old standby on Wikipedia. However, with regard to new
policies and guidelines, this cannot apply, and silence should instead imply either
indifference or a lack of proper exposure. If a proposal produces indifference in the
community, it is not necessary. If a proposal has not been adequately exposed to the
community, there is no just cause for implementing it as policy.
Kind regards/Salutacions,
Xavier Dengra
------- Original Message -------
El dilluns, 13 de febrer 2023 a les 20:00, Shani Evenstein <shani(a)wikimedia.org> va
escriure:
Hello Everyone,
Today the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines vote were
tallied. We are pleased to report the results show that the Enforcement Guidelines are
strongly supported by the community, with 76% of participants voting in support of the
Enforcement Guidelines.
A report with a summary and analysis of comments submitted in the voting process is being
prepared by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct work and will be
available soon.
Below is a message created by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct
work, which has [translations available on
Meta-wiki](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revise….
The recent community-wide vote on the [Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement
Guidelines](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Co…
has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of
the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition.
[
Statistics](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Co…
for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote
will be published soon.
From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the
Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees
review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process
is completed.
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in this process.
This list includes the people who voted in 2022 and those voters who provided comments so
we could strengthen and clarify the Enforcement Guidelines into the version the community
supports.
I especially want to thank the Drafting Committee, who took the time to reconvene and
review community feedback from the 2022 Enforcement Guideline vote and continue to engage
with the community and feedback throughout 2022.
Finally, thank you to the people who voted and shared feedback during this voting period.
We look forward to reviewing the report of the feedback and discussing next steps with the
rest of the Board.
Shani, on behalf of the CAC.
[Shani Evenstein
Sigalov](https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/)
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Chair, Community Affairs Committee
[Wikimedia
Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)