Happy new year, NC Wikipedian friends! I hope the year is off to a great start for all of you.

First, my deep, deep gratitude to Morgan for taking the lead on getting our annual report together. You can see a draft here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2021 If you have any additions to make, this is your last call. I'm going to submit it on Friday (1/6).

Thanks for your patience with our meeting hiatus while I go through a long, exhausting move back into my house. As a reminder, we'll meet again on Thursday, January 26, at 7pm. Zoom link forthcoming. In the meantime, feel free to email with any news, updates, questions, or concerns.

I have one update about the Universal Code of Conduct https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct. A vote is coming up from 1/17 to 1/31 to ratify the proposed enforcement guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. (The guidelines prescribe the actions that are taken when community members violate the Universal Code of Conduct.) All community members, and members of affiliates (that's you!) are invited to vote.

Mervat Salman, WMF Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator, sent a message, looking for the user names of members of our group who may be eligible to vote based on their membership in the North Carolina Wikipedians. (Mervat's message is copied below, and you can find the list of voting criteria for affiliate members here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforcement_guidelines/Voter_information#Wikimedia_movement_affiliates%E2%80%99_staff_and_contractors .)

You may be eligible to vote based on your # of edits and community standing. You can determine that using the account eligibility tool https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63.

If you are not eligible based on those factors (e.g. you don't have enough edits), and are interested in voting, and are a member of the user group, please send me your user name *by tomorrow* and I will pass it along to Mervat. (Sorry for the late notice. Hopefully they'll grant us a little leeway if we send those names a wee bit late!)

Let me know if you have any questions!

Cheers, Emily

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Hello Wikimedia Affiliates;

We want to update Wikimedia movement affiliates on the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct, one of the recommendations of the Movement Strategy process that many of you are familiar with.

Recently, the UCoC enforcement guidelines have been updated to reflect the feedback that the community provided during the consultation period earlier this year. Now, the final ratification is due. All community and affiliate members are invited to vote from 17 January 2023 until 31 January 2023 23:59:59 (UTC) via SecurePoll .

Members of affiliates might be eligible to vote even if they do not meet other criteria. Please review the voter eligibility criteria https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforcement_guidelines/Voter_information#Wikimedia_movement_affiliates%E2%80%99_staff_and_contractors and share this information with your membership. Your membership can also verify their individual eligibility using the Account Eligibility Tool https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63. These criteria are the same as those used for the recent Board of Trustees election.

Please reply to this email with the list of usernames who should be eligible to vote by January 5, 2023. There is no need to include people who are eligible under the other voter eligibility criteria.

We will update Affiliates in January with more information on the upcoming vote,

Thank you for your time, and your cooperation is appreciated. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

On behalf of the Trust & Safety - UCoC Team

*Mervat Salman (She/Her)* Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator