Movement Charter
The Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including to lay out a new Global Council for movement governance.
The Movement Charter is a Movement Strategy priority.
Current draftsEdit
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Decision-Making
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Hubs
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Global Council
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Glossary
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AboutEdit
The Movement Strategy recommendation of “Ensure Equity in Decision-making” stated that a Movement Charter would:
- Lay the values, principles and policy basis for Movement structures, including the roles and responsibilities of the Global Council, regional and thematic hubs, as well as other existing and new entities and decision-making bodies,
- Set requirements and criteria for decisions and processes that are Movement-wide to be legitimate and trusted by all stakeholders, e.g. for:
- Maintaining safe collaborative environments,
- Ensuring Movement-wide revenue generation and distribution,
- Giving a common direction on how resources should be allocated with appropriate accountability mechanisms.
- Defining how communities work together and are accountable to each other.
- Setting expectations for participation and the rights of participants.
TimelineEdit
This is a preliminary timeline. Although it broadly shows the steps involved in creating the Movement Charter, dates may be changed later on. Those changes will be potentially made to avoid rushing the process, especially when consulting with the community and other stakeholders, which is hard to limit within a fixed timeframe.
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| November 2021 – January 2022 |
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| February – October 2022 |
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| November 2022 – January 2023 | Call for review and amendments for all stakeholders |
| February – March 2023 | Reflecting upon feedback and revising of MCDC text |
| April – May 2023 | Community consultation on the Movement Charter Ratification Methodology Drafting the next batch of chapters (see below) |
| June – July 2023 | Second batch of the Movement Charter drafts published for review
The second batch will include the following chapters: Decision-making, Hubs, The Global Council and Roles & Responsibilities. |
| July – December 2023 | Review for all stakeholders |
| Extra cycles: If all is well, we can move to ratification. If not, there will be another 3 month cycle for revising the text, 2 months for review, and so on. | |
| January – March 2024 | Ratification process for the Movement Charter |
| January – March 2024 | Conversations regarding the set up of the next identified governance structure |
| April – June 2024 | Set up and selection process of the next identified governance structure |
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