Thanks, Danese. Right now this policy is limited to technical-only
events for the reason you describe; I'm talking with other Wikimedia
conference organizers to adjust wording for Wikimania and other
not-just-technical events.
-Sumana
On 01/12/2012 04:40 PM, Danese Cooper wrote:
Well done, Sumana. I especially like the start of the
exception list. Presumably situations such as academic discourse on body function (at a
WMF conference on improving content), or depictions of artifacts (in the GLAM context)
would be exceptions.
Danese
On Jan 12, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to a harassment-free conference
> experience for everyone. I'm proposing a fairly short and standard
> anti-harassment policy of the type that's becoming best practice for
> tech conferences and hackathons.
>
> Draft:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/AHP
>
> I don't imagine I'll get much response on this, but just wanted to put
> it out there before implementing. I intend on putting this into place
> by the middle of next week, in time for the San Francisco hackathon
> (starting January 20th).
>
> Comments on the talk page, please.
> --
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> Volunteer Development Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation
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