Movement Charter/Affiliates by Region/North America/en
This page supports North American affiliate participation in the Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process.
The Movement Strategy and Governance team is available to support this process.
Facilitators for this region include Jackie (en-us), Mahuton (fr), Oscar (es), and Xeno (en-ca).
Context
- Main article: Movement Charter/Drafting Committee
The Movement Charter defines the roles and responsibilities for all in the Wikimedia Movement. It will be a shared framework for working together toward the Strategic Direction.
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee will create a draft of this Charter. The content will follow the Movement Strategy recommendation “Equity in Decision-Making”. The committee's work extends to writing a draft. It includes research and consulting with communities, experts, and organizations. This draft will need to gain consensus by Movement-wide ratification before it becomes the Charter.
This Drafting Committee will have around 15 members. It is expected to represent diversity in the Movement. Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia Foundation. For further detail consult Drafting Committee matrices.
Process
- In order to help complete the Drafting Committee with the selection of the six (6) appointed members: each region will appoint 1 selector in a transparent affiliate selecting process to form a 9 member Selection Committee.
- Each region decides their preferred selection method.
- The selectors need to be appointed and the committee formed by October 10, 2021
- The selection process will run in parallel to the election process and will focus on adding diverse expert profiles to the Drafting Committee based on the Diversity and Expertise matrices.
- Every selector will create their list of preferences.
- There will be a meeting to discuss the preferences and to finalize the selection across the group.
- The selection will be conducted between October 11 - 24, 2021
- The results of the selection process and the Drafting Committee members will be announced before the end of October 31, 2021.
- Appointed selectors cannot be candidates for the Drafting Committee.
Procedure for determining the selector
- REVISION AS OF October 10, 2021, after a brief meeting of WMF and WikiConference North America participants:
- DEADLINE has been extended to October 13, 2021
- A PROVISIONAL representative has volunteered to temporarily serve in the short term for procedural matters, but is not the long term selector (Kevin Payravi/User:SuperHamster)
- A PROPOSED PROCESS has been put forth to allow for nominations and final "vote" by affiliates:
- October 11 - Urgent meeting of WALRUS and Wikimedia Canada community to explain process (meeting info)
- October 11-12 - nominations open (currently, on this page)
- October 13 (end of day) - Deadline for affiliate representives to fill in chart below with preferred candidate
- Simple majority determines the selector, not all affiliates are required to vote
- Discuss
- Previous meetings
Users willing to be a selector
(Self nominations or nominated by others with nominee accepting)
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Selector choice
| Affiliate | Type of affiliate | Selector choice |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia New York City | Chapter | |
| Wikimedia District of Columbia | Chapter | |
| WikiConference North America | User Group | |
| Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group | User Group | |
| Cascadia Wikimedians User Group | User Group | |
| Wikimedians of Chicago User Group | User Group | |
| North Carolina Wikipedians User Group | User Group | |
| San Diego Wikimedians User Group | User Group | |
| New England Wikimedians | User Group | |
| Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians User Group | User Group | |
| Florida Librarians of Wikipedia User Group | User Group | |
| Ohio Wikimedians User Group | User Group | |
| Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group | User Group | |
| Wikimedians of Colorado User Group | User Group | |
| Wikimedians of Los Angeles User Group | User Group | |
| Wikimedia Canada | Chapter |