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28 January

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  • Working Group discussed the best way of organising clustered documents for everyone to understand, and possibilities of using a template

21 January

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Clean up the cluster documents

The cluster topics included:

  1. Group culture/behaviour
  2. Participation
  3. Resources/processes
  4. Structure/Decision making
  5. Thinking/open mind

Cluster leads prepared the cluster documents to work in small groups to come up with;

  • a summary/overview of main considerations/thinking,
  • the possible focus for recommendations/solutions.  
  • An indication on which recommendations should be forwarded to the Foundation so that preparatory work can start.
    • Some of the discussions in the subgroups were about the definition of community, reviewing the criteria for people outside the affiliates model to join the (Wikimedia) community and the idea of external expertise, holding interviews as well as identifying organisations to get in touch with.

Working Group Liaisons

Working Group liaisons (like Rosie for Diversity) can discuss content, and also find other ways on how to collaborate or find synergies.

14 January

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  • Discussion on the support of administrators' potential need for mental health services. Trying to solve the potential technical and legal pain points.

07 January

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Moving Forward documents

Output in the earlier Strategy discussions has to be reviewed to incorporate content into the moving forward documents. Clusters can detail anything that’s abstract and might need to be fast tracked, for example writing a media wiki extension for secret/valid voting on some issues

The cluster leads to mark clusters for quick findings. Working Group members were allocated the following clusters;

  • participation
  • Resources
  • Thinking/open mind
  • Structure and decision making
  • Group Culture

Facilitation will be determined when subgroups (clusters) have completed and shared with other subgroups to brainstorm results in time, before Wikimedia Foundation’s All hands meeting, or exploring other communities.

Liaison with other groups

The main role for other Working Group Liaisons would be to share relevant inter linkages with other Working Groups.

Rosie is in touch with the Diversity Working Group, the other liaisons are;

  • Pavan: Capacity Building
  • Philip: Roles & Responsibilities
  • Mervat: Product & Technology
  • Rosie: Diversity

Iberoconf 2019 (February 8-10)

The agenda for Iberoconf 2019 is being drafted, Virginia Diez from Community Health Working Group will be attending to have discussions about the Movement Strategy process. There are 11 - 12 people from the Strategy Working Groups, Core Team presence would help to engage the members.

Safety Ombudsperson for the Working Group

In one of the working group’s office hours, the question of a Safety Ombudsperson for the Working Group was raised. Building on this, the Working Group discussed whether this should be a responsibility for the coordinator(s) or a stand-alone role.

  • A stand-alone model was agreed. Jan was nominated for this, further questions will be directly discussed as appropriate via mail with Jan.
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