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Please keep the entries concise and neutral, linking to the policy and discussions for details. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="General" data-mw-thread-id="h-General"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-General"></span>General<span data-mw-comment-end="h-General"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: General"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-General","replies":["h-What_are_\"marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups\"?-General"]}}--></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="What_are_"marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups"?" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_are_"marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups"?-General"><span id="What_are_.22marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups.22.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-What_are_"marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups"?-General"></span>What are "marginalized and otherwise underrepresented groups"?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-What_are_"marginalized_and_otherwise_underrepresented_groups"?-General"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: What are "marginalized and otherwise underrepresented groups"?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An underrepresented group is any demographic group that makes up a smaller percentage of the Wikimedia technical community than it does of the world. This Code of Conduct does not provide a definition of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalized_group" class="extiw" title="w:Marginalized group">marginalized group</a>. The Code of Conduct Committee will decide if a report received is related to groups fitting in these two categories. </p><p>People related to these groups are more likely to become targets of discrimination<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, explicitly or as a consequence of unconscious bias<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>, both in the societies where they live and online. This is why we are stressing explicitly this risk as unacceptable behavior. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Committee" data-mw-thread-id="h-Committee"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Committee"></span>Committee<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Committee"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Committee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Committee","replies":["h-Isn't_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers?-Committee","h-How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put?-Committee","h-Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly?-Committee","h-Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment?-Committee"]}}--></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Isn't_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Isn't_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers?-Committee"><span id="Isn.27t_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Isn't_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers?-Committee"></span>Isn't this CoC placing excessive responsibility on volunteers?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Isn't_this_CoC_placing_excessive_responsibility_on_volunteers?-Committee"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Isn't this CoC placing excessive responsibility on volunteers?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates" title="Code of Conduct/Committee/Members/Candidates">Candidates</a> to join the Committee may be volunteers or employees of a related organization. They are self-nominated, and they assume the responsibility voluntarily. The Committee may request support from experts and reviewers external to the Committee and unrelated to the case. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put?" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put?-Committee"><span id="How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put?-Committee"></span>How much work are Committee members expected to put?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_much_work_are_Committee_members_expected_to_put?-Committee"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: How much work are Committee members expected to put?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of March 2017, this is hard to predict. For what is worth, the Technical Collaboration's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health" class="extiw" title="m:Technical Collaboration/Community health">Community Health group</a> (who handles conduct reports submitted to them) processes between one to ten incidents every quarter, the majority of them being equivalent to <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Cases#Immediate_Response" title="Code of Conduct/Cases">immediate response</a> cases resolved quickly and without major controversy. About once every quarter there is one case requiring the equivalent of a <a href="/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Cases#Longer-term_Response" title="Code of Conduct/Cases">longer-term response</a>, sometimes connected to one of our major developer events. </p><p>We asked the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/">Django project's Code of Conduct Committee</a>, and their answer was ~2 hours a month on average. It varies from zero to many more when there are matters at hand. People also vary in the time they have available so it's not uniform across all members. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly?-Committee"><span id="Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly?-Committee"></span>Are Committee members required to disclose their legal identity publicly?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Are_Committee_members_required_to_disclose_their_legal_identity_publicly?-Committee"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Are Committee members required to disclose their legal identity publicly?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>No, in the same way that e.g. <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards" class="extiw" title="m:Stewards">Stewards</a> are not required to publish their real names either. If a person is known by their username only, they can just keep this identification when they join the Committee. All Committee members need to be identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, following the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy" class="extiw" title="m:Access to nonpublic information policy">Access to nonpublic information policy</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment?-Committee"><span id="Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment.3F"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment?-Committee"></span>Are Committee members risking to become targets of harassment?<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Are_Committee_members_risking_to_become_targets_of_harassment?-Committee"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Are Committee members risking to become targets of harassment?"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In general, people who work on harassment complaints can become targets themselves. According to the information gathered in the past years by the people involved in the Technical Collaboration's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health" class="extiw" title="m:Technical Collaboration/Community health">Community Health group</a>, retaliation and harassment targeted to people handling conduct incidents in the Wikimedia technical community are very rare, partly due to the number of incidents, the size of the community, the high percentage of identified contributors, and peer community support. That said, the Technical Collaboration and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Support_and_Safety" class="extiw" title="m:Support and Safety">Support and Safety</a> teams at the Wikimedia Foundation are committed to provide training to all Committee members, as well as advice and direct support in case of incidents. See for instance <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_modules/Online_harassment/Final_draft#Communication:_Keeping_yourself_safe" class="extiw" title="m:Training modules/Online harassment/Final draft">Communication: Keeping yourself safe</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="References" data-mw-thread-id="h-References"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-References"></span>References<span data-mw-comment-end="h-References"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/FAQ&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-References","replies":[]}}--></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination#Types" class="extiw" title="w:Discrimination">Discrimination#Types</a> has a list of types of discrimination and references to groups suffering them frequently.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">For a good introduction to unconscious bias and discrimination, see <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://managingbias.fb.com/">Stereotypes and Performance Bias</a></i> and related videos.</span> </li> </ol></div> <!-- NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐web.codfw.main‐6d848949df‐2djbd Cached time: 20241113073434 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: [show‐toc] DiscussionTools time usage: 0.006 seconds CPU time usage: 0.017 seconds Real time usage: 0.022 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 62/1000000 Post‐expand include size: 0/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 2/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 947/5000000 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/400 --> <!-- Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 0.000 1 -total --> <!-- Saved in parser cache with key mediawikiwiki:pcache:idhash:501564-0!canonical and timestamp 20241113073434 and revision id 6792397. 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