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 hwalls@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to quickly follow up and thank you for being patient.
Zack, Essie, Samir, Elena, and the entire project team was eager, working very very hard, and prepared to share the planned Naming Convention Proposals this week. Our colleagues across the Foundation, particularly in Legal, were also tightly involved in this project that is both important and close to our hearts. Rescheduling feels a bit disappointing to us all, but we are excited at the chance for us to add more to the future review, and to set up a stronger discussion across our Movement about the limits and possibilities of new naming systems.
Thanks, Heather
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:34 AM Zack McCune zmccune@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone-
Today, we are rescheduling the Naming Convention Proposal community
review
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
far
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,
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 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
with
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
want
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
changes
to share with you at this critical phase.
Collaborating with our Legal team and the Board, we will work to have
more
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
we
can after.
Yours in branding,
- Zack, Essie, Elena, Samir, Rupika and the entire Brand Project team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movemen...
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