Hi Samir,
First of all, thank you for sharing the detailed analysis and for
publishing the raw data after a review. I appreciate the efforts made on
that front.
I wanted to quickly acknowledge (as you are undoubtly aware from open
question responses) that there were a number of reports of people being
confused about the question phrasing, and that they realized after
submitting that their answers would probably be interpreted wrong because
of the phrasings. It might be helpful if you can publish at least the raw
questionnaire structure along the presentation.
Unrelatedly, it's a bit painful to read things like "Refine: Demonstrate
how elevating one project can support the others and help reduce
confusion." and "Refine: Further develop and assess the foreseen legal
concerns so affiliates can have a greater understanding of Wikipedia
centered name." which suggests that you're convinced that this is mostly a
matter of better explaining how this is a good idea, than that you
appreciate the fundamental disagreement that seems to be here, that this is
a good idea. This may be a simple matter of unfortunate phrasing though, or
maybe I'm reading too much into the sentences with the previous
conversations and presentations in mind.
Best,
Lodewijk
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:24 AM Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brand_Project_Naming_Survey_Feedback_R…
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
> > ________________________________
> > From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on
behalf
of
> María Sefidari
<msefidari(a)wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:47 PM
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> 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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