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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thank you for drafting this up, Matt. Who's
"we" here?
On 6 August 2015 at 20:19, Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen(a)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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