Movement Charter/Project/bg
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.
About
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.
Timeline
This is a dynamic 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.
| Period | Step |
|---|---|
| ноември 2021―януари 2022 | Setting up the support systems and internal processes of the Drafting Group Research and information-gathering |
| февруари 2022―октомври 2022 | Research and information-gathering Creating the initial draft of the Charter content in conversation with all stakeholders |
| ноември 2022 | First batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters (Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities statement of intent) published |
| ноември 2022―януари 2023 | Community consultation on the first batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters |
| февруари 2023―март 2023 | Reflecting upon feedback and revising of the first batch of the draft chapters |
| април 2023 | Community consultation on the Movement Charter ratification methodology proposal |
| април 2023―юли 2023 | Drafting the second batch of Movement Charter draft chapters |
| юли 2023 | Second batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters (Hubs, Global Council, Roles & Responsibilities and Glossary) published |
| юли 2023―септември 2023 | Community consultation on the second batch of the Movement Charter draft chapters |
| септември 2023―декември 2023 | MCDC consultations at local events |
| ноември 2023―март 2024 | Review of feedback and second iteration drafting of full Movement Charter |
| 2 април 2023 | First version of the full Movement Charter published |
| април 2024 | Community engagement on the full charter draft |
| май 2024―юни 2024 | Finalization of the full charter text based on community feedback Preparation for the ratification vote of the Movement Charter |
| 10 юни 2024 | Publication of the final version of the Movement Charter text |
| 25 юни 2024―9 юли 2024 | Ratification vote for the Movement Charter |
