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@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.
Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation
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