User:Ciell/Roles & Responsibilities
Mapping of roles and responsibilities in the movement edit
Overall edit
Wikimedia Foundation Inc edit
- Board of Trustees
- CEO
- Trust & Safety (office actions!)
- WMF Bylaws
- WMF Policies
Community committees edit
- Affcom
- Arbcoms
- T&RS Case Review
- Regional Grants committees
Affiliates edit
- chapters
- user groups
- thematic orgs
- Wikimedia Alliances?
- Hubs?
Projects edit
- project communities
- multilingual projects: Commons, Incubator, Meta, Mediawiki, Multilingual Wikisource, Outreach wiki, Wikidata, Wikispecies
- language specific projects: Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary
Users with specific user rights edit
- rollbackers
- renamers
- admins/sysops (overall and specific, i.e. interface or translation)
- bureaucrats
- stewards
- checkusers
- oversighters
Individual users edit
- readers
- not logged in editors
- logged in editors
- newbies
- autoconfirmed
- bots and their owners
VRTS edit
- VRTS Agents
- VRTS admins
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- mailing list admins
- IRC & discord ops/admins
Where does this go...? edit
Strategy recommendations #4 on R&R edit
Roles & Responsibilities (Open pathways to decision-making roles) edit
What edit
To build a more equitable Movement, roles and responsibilities will be clearly defined. Pathways to power positions will be open and transparent to avoid confusion and to include more diverse and representative voices. Mechanisms to resolve conflicts regarding mandate and authority over roles in our Movement will be designed and agreed upon.
Changes and Actions edit
- Establish good practice guidelines for how boards function, such as term limits, election and selection processes, and approaches to other governance questions where applicable and relevant for a community. These guidelines will need to be adapted and contextualized by each stakeholder. Boards would be held accountable for following good practices by the Global Council. For those that do not, the Global Council will create mechanisms to review and provide support.
- Collectively define good practice guidelines for how to both empower/inspire and enable/support new volunteers to run for different types of elected roles. These efforts will be particularly focused on underrepresented groups.
- Ensure leadership positions and ways of accessing them are documented, transparent, and accessible.
Rationale edit
The current power distribution within communities limits access to power positions for many, including women and other currently underrepresented profiles. Current structures (or lack of structures) limit not only the possibilities of participating in positions of power but also the emergence of new leaders in our Movement.
Whenever the current power balance is challenged, conflicts emerge to protect existing structures, given the lack of overall guidance and joint movement-wide decision-making mechanisms to resolve them. Fair and open conflict resolution and power-limiting measures aim at balancing existing structures with equity. All of this will make Wikimedia inclusive of future communities and lead to a cultural change to grow to our full potential and diversity.
links for reference edit
- w:nl:Overleg_Wikipedia:Universele_gedragscode#Rollen_en_verantwoordelijkheden - Attempt to collect all r&r in the movement in 2021 (Dutch)