Hi everyone- Today, we are rescheduling the Naming Convention Proposal community

planned for May 7 - 21, including tomorrow's live presentation. This critical part of the Movement Brand Project is designed to share and review compelling, unifying naming proposals that would sustain our free knowledge mission

into the future. [1] We are incredibly excited to talk NAMES with our communities. We know how important naming is to the Movement, and together we’ve made considerable progress on options that would allow us to invite and inspire people to join us. People join the movements that move them, and we want our Naming Convention Proposals to be both functional and appealing. We are particularly interested in “Wiki” as a potential direction, often suggested by the community and widely used in our Movement. However,

are significant practical issues with "Wiki" due to the relevant

landscape. We do not want to present to you an option that we could not make work. The fastest thing to do would be to remove it from the possibilities, but we hear your preferences and we don’t want to do that. Instead, we need more time to expand the research and risk evaluation

our Legal team and the Board to fully understand what opportunities we have. We recognize that changing timing may appear to avoid a necessary and promised discussion. Nothing could be further from our intentions. We

to meet our commitment to you to present the best options based on the conversations we’ve had so far, instead of a more limited set of options that we had to narrow in order to meet our deadline. We want to have more exploration and clarity on the risks, costs, and rewards of naming

to share with you at this critical phase. Collaborating with our Legal team and the Board, we will work to have

details to share with you soon. The Project Team will meet with the Board of Trustees during their May 22nd summit, and will follow up as soon as

can after. Yours in branding, - Zack, Essie, Elena, Samir, Rupika and the entire Brand Project team [1]

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Hi everyone, As promised, we are back with an update and a new timeline to discuss names as a movement. We are excited to take on naming together beginning 16 June. Here is an overview of what happened and what to expect: After additional weeks of legal review and a conversation with the Board of Trustees at their 22 May meeting, we have alignment to present three naming convention proposals for movement-wide review on 16 June. The Board of Trustees affirmed support for the project [1] and vetted various naming options. They explored legal and financial implications of different approaches, and evaluated them based on their potential to act as compelling, unifying tools to elevate the work we are currently doing and ensure the future of our movement. Based on these assessments, the movement-wide review will revolve around two naming convention proposals centered on Wikipedia, one that is a Wiki/Wikipedia hybrid, and an open response area where respondents can share their own naming proposals. We feel confident that the vetting process has led to solid proposals, while we also want to ensure we are open to your ideas and are committed to reviewing suggestions made in the open response area. While these weeks of work have reconfirmed that naming structures centered entirely on “Wiki” would not be legally feasible or financially responsible, we were able to uncover ways in which “Wiki” can be used as part of movement naming. We know there will be questions around this, and look forward to discussing more in detail during the upcoming live presentation. ***Join us for the live presentation [2] of the three Naming Convention Proposals on 16 June at 15:00 UTC.*** We will present the various options that were considered, the risks and rewards of each, and how the process arrived at the three options for review. As previously planned, the movement-wide review to follow will be multilingual and will rely on surveys for individual contributors, affiliates, and Foundation depts, as well as open discussion on Meta-Wiki, from 16 June to 30 June. The two weeks of feedback will help to remove, refine and recombine elements from the proposals into a single, synthesized proposal. We look forward to talking names with you soon. Best, - Zack & the Brand Project Team [1] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Brand_Project_Support_(May… [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 12:12 PM Heather Walls &lt;hwalls(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: working in all, review, wrote: mission how considerable to Naming often not that. options more Board as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme… , -- Zack McCune (he/him) Director of Brand Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

With kind permission, I would like to further explain my question (in

it was unclear, and kindly assume good faith): The resolution (linked above and at [1]) states that "the Board affirms

support for the brand project and its strategic importance for the movement, mission, and 2030 strategy, and the Board directs the

to complete this work by Wikipedia's 20th birthday." – what is "this work" that is to be completed by January 2021? I believe it includes implementation (first phase) as well? On Meta-Wiki the /Timeline page mentions[2] "January 2021" as "Organizational implementation: adoption by the Foundation with opt-in system for affiliates. I see an almost clear action point here that by January 2021 the opt-in naming comes into picture for the communities, where the brand value of Wikipedia will be experimented with a few communities/projects with

attention. Wait, aren't we yet to start the review process? Kindly note, other than the 3 or so models, I have noticed that there was always another (robust) voice, and that's a "no". Sincerely, User:Titodutta [1]

[2]

Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to

me over email or phone call. On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 04:34, Tito Dutta &lt;trulytito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

> : > "... and the Board directs the Foundation to complete this work by > Wikipedia's 20th birthday." > — That is 15 January 2021. Interesting. > It seems the option is now to select one of three (re)naming options. > Actually, I was going to suggest a "movement-wide review" may need more > than 14 days of time.... for affiliates, and communities etc. . > Thanks > User:Titodutta > > > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 00:47, Zack McCune &lt;zmccune(a)wikimedia.org&gt;

> >> Hi everyone, >> >> As promised, we are back with an update and a new timeline to discuss >> names >> as a movement. We are excited to take on naming together beginning 16 >> June. >> Here is an overview of what happened and what to expect: >> >> After additional weeks of legal review and a conversation with the

of >> different approaches, and evaluated them based on their potential to

and >> ensure the future of our movement. Based on these assessments, the >> movement-wide review will revolve around two naming convention

>> centered on Wikipedia, one that is a Wiki/Wikipedia hybrid, and an

We while centered >> entirely on “Wiki” would not be legally feasible or financially >> responsible, we were able to uncover ways in which “Wiki” can be used

and >> look forward to discussing more in detail during the upcoming live >> presentation. >> >> ***Join us for the live presentation [2] of the three Naming

>> Proposals on 16 June at 15:00 UTC.*** >> >> We will present the various options that were considered, the risks

Meta-Wiki, >> from 16 June to 30 June. The two weeks of feedback will help to

particularly important >> > and close to our hearts. Rescheduling feels a bit disappointing to

limits >> > and possibilities of new naming systems. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Heather >> > >> > >> > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:34 AM Zack McCune &lt;zmccune(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >> wrote: >> > >> > > Hi everyone- >> > > >> > > Today, we are rescheduling the Naming Convention Proposal

>> > review >> > > planned for May 7 - 21, including tomorrow's live presentation.

>> > > critical part of the Movement Brand Project is designed to share

know >> how >> > > important naming is to the Movement, and together we’ve made >> considerable >> > > progress on options that would allow us to invite and inspire

>> to >> > > join us. People join the movements that move them, and we want our >> Naming >> > > Convention Proposals to be both functional and appealing. >> > > >> > > We are particularly interested in “Wiki” as a potential direction, >> often >> > > suggested by the community and widely used in our Movement.

>> > there >> > > are significant practical issues with "Wiki" due to the relevant >> > trademark >> > > landscape. We do not want to present to you an option that we

>> not >> > > make work. The fastest thing to do would be to remove it from the >> > > possibilities, but we hear your preferences and we don’t want to

evaluation >> > with >> > > our Legal team and the Board to fully understand what

we and We the >> > > conversations we’ve had so far, instead of a more limited set of >> options >> > > that we had to narrow in order to meet our deadline. We want to

have >> > more >> > > details to share with you soon. The Project Team will meet with

>> Board >> > > of Trustees during their May 22nd summit, and will follow up as

team

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 Hoi,  How will you cope in other languages, other scripts. Is engaging all over  the world NOT in English a consideration>  Thanks,         GerardM  On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 05:34, Zack McCune &lt;zmccune(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:  relaunched  Meta-Wiki  was  https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Brand_Project_Support_(May…  https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brand…  https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Brand_Project_Support_(May…  more  discuss  16  vetted  implications  doing  proposals.  to  used  this,  for  https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Brand_Project_Support_(May…  Convention  zmccune(a)wikimedia.org&gt;  our  direction,  the  necessary  intentions.  on  naming  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…  https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l  ?subject=unsubscribe>  _______________________________________________  Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l  New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org  Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,  <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Hi GerardM, Indeed! As I mentioned in my earlier message, the process will be multilingual.

want to ensure that as many people as possible from across the movement have the opportunity to participate, so we are working hard to make that happen. When it comes to naming in particular, we need to understand the localization opportunities and challenges of the different proposals in order to arrive at a system that works globally. We are having both the survey and the proposals translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Russian and Spanish.