Hello Everyone,


Today the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines vote were talliedWe 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.


The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines 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 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

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

Chair, Community Affairs Committee

Wikimedia Foundation