Xeno,

Question 1 - ratification failure Could you explain more clearly what happens if the ratification process fails to get 50% support? "If the majority of voters oppose the adoption of the guidelines as written, they will be asked which elements need to be changed and why"[1] gives no clue about timeline or if anything else than minor changes and resubmitting six months later would be tried or tried multiple times.

Question 2 - the role of Arbcoms Hopefully you and the Board understand that though you "strongly support" the "Open Letter from Arbcoms",[2] Arbcoms do not represent the many minorities in our global community and case studies clearly demonstrate they do not represent minority groups by their majority vote nature. How will this bias be balanced if Arbcoms are so involved behind the scenes in the UCoC enforcement, which may include correcting or overruling cases where an Arbcom has already been involved and have conflicts of interest?

Does the UCoC drafting team understand "politically" elected groups like the Russian Wikipedia Arbcom represents a strong anti-minority group bias in their own right, something that cannot be corrected by just having more majority votes, a bias that the UCoC is supposed to help correct? An example is the hostile and attacking responses to the recent meta RFC to ban a Russian blatantly anti-LGBTQ lobbyist and vandal which provides an excellent case study for why a committee that only represents majority views gives outcomes that drive out minority groups from Wikimedia projects and has failed to change this despite complaints and protest over many years.[3]

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Janua... 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_from_Arbcoms_to_the_Board_of_Tru... 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_ban_for_1Goldber...

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 22:43, Xeno (Jack) xeno-ctr@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hello everyone,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has provided an update on the ratification process for the updated Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement guidelines [1]. In the next few weeks, the UCoC project team will provide more information on how to participate in the ratification process. The timeline has been updated on Meta [2] as the UCoC project team prepares for the voting process that will take place in early March.

To help to understand the process better, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will be hosting Conversation Hours on the 4th of February 2022 at 15:00 UTC, and also on the 4th of March 2022 (exact time to be announced). We are urging everyone to join the conversation hours and dialogue with the UCoC project team on the voting process [3].

In the meantime, please take a look at the revised and translated Guidelines [4] that the drafting committee has been hard at work on over the last few months to improve and clarify. There is a comparison page if you would like to see the changes to the guidelines since the draft review last year [5]. You can leave your comments on the talk page as well [6].

Finally, the UCoC and MSG teams want to deeply thank the Drafting Committee for their hard work and dedication in finding equitable ways of applying the UCoC in ways that work for both our growing and more established community processes across the movement.

Thank you,

Xeno (WMF) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance Wikimedia Foundation

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