I was also at the Wikimania session where we worked on this draft. I strongly support this effort. Best practices for codes of conduct include clearly defined consequences for breaches, as well as named behaviors that are unacceptable (as not everyone shares the same "common sense", and people interested in behaving badly tend to rules-lawyer as well). Our Phabricator etiquette is lacking both of these, and it does not cover the rest of our technical spaces. An effective code of conduct has been shown to be effective at bringing people from underrepresented groups--and their contributions!--to events and projects. Screening technical contributors by their willingness to take a risk of poor treatment is a terrible idea if we want to get as many good contributions as we can.
-Frances
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for drafting this up, Matt. Who's "we" here?
On 6 August 2015 at 20:19, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 08/06/2015 08:17 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
We're in the process of developing a code of conduct for technical spaces. This will be binding, and apply to all Wikimedia-related technical spaces (including but not limited to MediaWiki.org, Phabricator, Gerrit, technical IRC channels, and Etherpad).
I forgot to mention (but this is in the draft), it also applies to
physical
spaces, including but not limited to hackathons.
Matt Flaschen
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