Pilipinas Panorama Community/Movement Charter Drafts (2023)
| The Pilipinas Panorama Community is a thematic Wikimedia organization based in Metro Manila, Philippines. The community was founded by Filipino Wikimedians advocating equity, cultural heritage, history, language & ethnicity, art, freedom of panorama, and Wikimedia's Movement Strategy, contributing to expand the global availability of free knowledge. |
The Wikimedia Movement Charter Drafts (2023)
The Movement Charter will be a document defining roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia Movement, including laying out a new Global Council for movement governance. The Movement Charter is a Movement Strategy priority. Henceforth, a broad ratification process is expected for its adoption.
The 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; and other entities and decision-making bodies,
- Set requirements and criteria for Movement-wide decisions and processes to be legitimate and trusted by all stakeholders,
- Maintain safe collaborative environments,
- Ensure Movement-wide revenue generation and distribution,
- Give a common direction on how resources should be allocated.
- Define how communities work together and be accountable to each other, and
- Set expectations for participation and the rights of participants.
Movement Charter Translations 2023
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Wikimedia Movement Charter Drafts (2023)
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Voices from the local communities need to participate and provide their feedback about the Movement Charter, which impacts the entire Wikimedia Movement.
| You will be able to submit your feedback, either through the anonymous and multilingual survey, or the talk page on Meta, or the Movement Strategy Forum, or by joining the regional conversations, or by sharing your thoughts in our own Pilipinas Panorama Discussion Page. Ultimately, your voice must be heard. |
Preamble
The Wikimedia Movement is focused on developing, curating and expanding the global availability of free knowledge. The Wikimedia Movement Charter exists to define the Wikimedia movement, its core values and principles.
- It is a formal social agreement explaining the relationships between entities within the movement and their rights and responsibilities. This applies equally to both existing entities and those to be established.
- The Charter exists with the agreement of the communities governed by it, through a formal ratification process. The Movement Charter applies to all members, entities and technical spaces within the Wikimedia movement, including but not limited to content contributors, projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
- To achieve our focus, the movement has developed a wide range of knowledge repositories (“the projects”) in multiple languages with different focuses. The projects are largely self-governed, with respect to content creation and management, as well as community conduct. The movement also includes both organised and informal groups focused on specific matters or geographic regions. The role of these groups is to support the projects directly and indirectly.
- Supplementing these projects and groups is a comprehensive infrastructure with several roles.
- The infrastructure supports the technical needs of the movement.
- The infrastructure provides financial and other resources for ongoing development and retention of knowledge.
- The infrastructure endeavours to promote legal and regulatory environments that enable the movement, and the entities within it, to operate around the world.
- The infrastructure also supports content contributors, readers, and all others who are part of the global Wikimedia movement by promoting and advancing a safe and productive environment; in which knowledge can be shared and consumed, where it is not feasible for a local project to do so itself.
The nature and extent of the infrastructure support is limited by the movement’s values, resources, and restrictions imposed outside of the movement.
Values & Principles
We represent a fact-based, open, and inclusive approach to knowledge. Our projects serve knowledge to a global audience, and the platforms that host the projects are driven by independent initiative. Our policies and everyday practices are guided by community values that empower all Wikimedians everywhere to be able to participate on a basis of equity.
Our values and principles recognize that this approach to make knowledge available is a collaborative endeavor, and aim to keep the focus on:
- Free knowledge and open source
- We share, in the spirit of free knowledge, all of our content, all our software, all our platforms with the world, using the transformative tool of open licensing. We commit to making space for the knowledge that has historically been marginalized - including within our projects.
- Independence
- We strive to operate independently, without any favoritism that would hinder our free knowledge mission. We are not driven by commercial, political or other monetary or promotional influences.
- Inclusivity
- We foster a people-centered vision of participatory co-creation. Our projects are intended to be available in all languages, and accessible on diverse platforms by universal design and assistive technology. Our practices build on and safeguard the diversity and rights of our communities. To do so, we establish and enforce codes of conduct, and ensure that everyone feels valued and equally included.
- Subsidiarity
- We entrust authority to the most immediate or local level that is appropriate, on both our platforms and in our organizational governance. Thereby, we ensure a capable self-management and autonomy of communities that acts in accordance with the values of the global movement.
- Equity
- We empower and support communities through pragmatic decentralization and autonomy. Along with equity in the representation of knowledge, we enable equity of resources. We also enable equity of digital rights such as privacy to our users and all participants to the widest extent possible.
- Accountability
- We hold ourselves accountable through the transparency of shared editable documentation where at all possible, public notice and reporting of programs and activities, and the prioritization of voices representing community leadership for the roles and responsibilities delineated in our charter.
- Resilience
- We thrive by innovation and experimentation, continually renewing the vision of what a platform for free knowledge can be. We pursue effective strategies and practices driven by evidence. We promote a culture of sustainability across our structures and communities.
Roles & Responsibilities
Overall, this chapter will define the adoption of our values and principles in practice. It will describe the distribution of roles and responsibilities for entities across the Wikimedia Movement, including the suggested but unexplored structures of Global Council and Hubs.
This chapter will be based on the following intentions
- As the Wikimedia Movement has changed over the last 20 years, the committee understands that roles and responsibilities need to evolve accordingly. They also need to provide space for future growth, adjustment and innovation.
- This chapter will provide an overview of the Wikimedia Movement and will introduce two new entities: Hubs and the Global Council. The chapter will also introduce and define the mandates of these new entities, when and where they seem fit. The committee will provide clarity of structure, functions, hierarchy and interactions for all stakeholders. We will work to come to a common agreement for a Hubs definition, taking into account the on-going pilots and community perspectives. Considering the anticipated stature of the Global Council, there will be a dedicated chapter in the Movement Charter.
- The roles and responsibilities that currently exist in the Wikimedia Movement may be modified, in part or whole. While doing this, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) will review the previous work by the Movement Strategy 2030 working groups, as well as other relevant resources.
- Our Movement is constantly evolving. The MCDC will consider alternative governance structures and their potential for future applications.
- The MCDC will propose new roles and responsibilities for the Movement, fill identified gaps and aim for decentralization and subsidiarity.
It is important to note, that the Movement Charter Drafting Committee does not have a decision making power by itself, but once the Movement Charter is formally ratified, it will redefine our governance structure. The exact ratification process is yet to be determined.
Salin sa Tagalog
Read the initial Movement Charter drafts in Tagalog language.
Palis sa Bikol Sentral
Read the initial Movement Charter drafts in Central Bicolano language.