I agree that if the grants discussions were on Foundation wiki that WMF staff would have more leeway to make decisions without going through the Board or community. It seems to me that Meta is a community project wiki that is governed by community leadership and community content moderation, and it would be scope creep for WMF to "control" portions of Meta. Especially if the intention is for grants processes to be community led, then community process should be followed. (In general I would like to see more community leadership for Community Resources processes and for WMF to have a support/backstop role. This worked well in IEGCom when I was on that committee, and I appreciate the very cooperative relationship that we had with Siko.) Being lax on enforcement provisions for a friendly space policy is something that the community could address if a friendly space policy goes through an RfC.
Thanks, Pine On Jul 20, 2015 4:14 AM, "Craig Franklin" cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
Indeed, as Kirill says, the grants process is owned by the WMF (albeit one hosted on Meta), not by the community, so I'm not sure why the Meta community needs to get involved. It actually seems to me that the foundation wiki would be a better home for processes like this so that community bureaucracy can be avoided, but since the events of a couple of years ago that seems like it's not a plausible option in the short term.
I do have to say I'm a bit disappointed that a lot of the negative feedback that certain aspects of the friendly space policy got from the GAC seem to have been handwaved away; with its feeble provisions for enforcement, it seems like the sort of policy you have when you want to look like you're doing something about a problem, without actually taking responsibility, or addressing the difficult root causes that caused the issue in the first place. If saying "no" to harassment in WMF processes isn't worth upturning a few apple carts over, then what is? I do hope that the Community department will have a change of heart and take a much harder line against offwiki harassment, starting from here.
On a completely different note, I do hope that the legal team will share their "protocol for appearance (or threat of it) at events by banned users". I've been given softly-softly unofficial advice before on the expectations if globally banned users show up at a community event, but it would be good if this could be made available for everyone that wants to hold an event where there is a chance that banned or otherwise problematic individuals might show up, so as to ensure a consistent approach.
Cheers, Craig
On 20 July 2015 at 07:15, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
- Will the friendly-space "expectations" (policy?) for grants spaces
on
Meta be proposed as an RfC on Meta? The documentation on the rollout
plan
doesn't mention and RfC. My understanding is that the right way to implement a policy change like this on Meta is for it to go through an
open
and transparent RfC process, and that the implementation decision is ultimately the community's to make. The experience would inform further discussions about (1) a project-wide friendly space policy on Meta, and
(2)
a wider consultation on a friendly space amendment to the ToS that the
WMF
Board may eventually ratify.
I don't see any reason why an RFC would be required (or appropriate)
here.
The grantmaking process is a WMF function, and the associated pages on
meta
are managed by the WMF grantmaking team; they are free to impose requirements (such as compliance with a friendly space standard) on
anyone
participating in that process (whether as an applicant or as a commenter
or
reviewer).
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