On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki < steinsplitter-wiki@live.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, the whole Code of Conduct Voting hasn't been widely announced (just on phabricator).
By my count, Matt has sent over twenty announcements about it to this list (and quite a few others) over the course of the last thirteen months. The specific section you have commented on has been announced on July 26: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-July/086151.html and then again on August 24: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-August/086357.html
See also the earlier discussion about where announcements should be made: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Wider_participatio...
I mainly see participation just from a very closed group.
I don't think "closed" is a reasonable word to use there. Participation is mainly from a small, self-selected group of people who chose to care. Most discussions work like that. Compare the number of people who were involved in defining Commons copyright policy to the number of people who upload images, or the number of people who where involved in the discussion of the (then) new Wikimedia-wide terms of content to the number of people who use the site...
Last but not least: I am not happy at all that me comment has been strike
from https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Code_of_Con duct/Draft&diff=2247995&oldid=2247822 by Matt Flaschen (WMF). Looks like it is no longer allowed to comment over there, thus i write here.
According to the current draft, there is an amendment process every three months where details of the code of conduct can be rediscussed; I would recommend aiming for that.
(Also, in my personal opinion, your comment might have been received more kindly if it contained anything substantive, but it was just +1 to an IDONTLIKEIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:I_just_don%27t_like_it comment. Those tend not to be helpful in a consensus-building process.)