English subtitles for clip: File:Meet the Movement Charter Drafting Committee.webm

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As-salaam alaykum (السلام عليكم).

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ismi Ravan (اسمي رافان).

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Bonjour.

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Je suis Georges Foudouop.

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Hallo!

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Goedendag!

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Hello!

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I'm Richard, or as you might know me on-wiki
Nosebagbear.

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Cześć, witajcie!

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Nazywam się Daria Cybulska.

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As-salaam alaykum (السلام عليكم).

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ma'akum Anass (معكم أنس).

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Dobry wieczór, nazywam się Michał Buczyński.

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Hola.

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Soy Jorge Vargas.

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Óla.

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Tudo bem?

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I'm Érica Azzellini speaking from São Paulo,
Brazil.

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The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is
a group of Wikimedians working together with

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the movement to write our most pivotal document
for our next chapter.

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The charter is a document that will consolidate
our values and principles and that will

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define roles and responsibilities across the
movement to which everyone who's willing to

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contribute to our vision should abide by.

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It's going to be actually deciding on our
governance.

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It's going to be stating the relationship
between the different stakeholders and also

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showing the future structures that will be
in our movement so in that sense it's a central

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document - it's a key document and it will
be providing a lot of guidelines for governance

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and for other areas for all the stakeholders
in our movement.

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The Movement Charter will be a document that
brings together all our policies on governance

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and will tell you everything you need to know

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for navigating the Wikimedia landscape.

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I got involved in the MCDC considering that
the role that I play within the Foundation

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has a lot of connection with the movement.

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In the almost nine years that I've been working
for the Wikimedia Foundation, I feel myself

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part of the movement caring so deeply about
the vision and the mission that we want to

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carry in the world and for that I want to
make sure that I can play a role in shaping

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the future of how our movement is governed,
is organized, and is thought through better.

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When I heard about it in the first time it
sounded for me like an actual chance of leaving

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a fingerprint in the world or let's say in
the free knowledge world by participating

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in drafting the documents that will shape
and design our future in the movement, our

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governance models, our different relationships
between different stakeholders according to

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the recommendations of 2030 Strategy.

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I got involved in the Movement Charter because
I'd been working all along the global conversations

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to basically decide what should be going into
it in a broad term and then I helped craft

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the actual structure of the Committee and
through that some people suggested, "Ah!

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Richard, you should run."

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Actually I saw that there was benefit to be
gained by continuing down it.

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I think that with my 16 years of experience
in the Wikimedia movement as well as my background

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in social work and combined with a lot of
travels I've been doing in the last years

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I think I can help create this essential document
for our movement.

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With the experience I have gained over the
past 10 years in the movement in Africa and

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in the French speaking world, I thought it
would be a good idea to contribute to the

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building of the movement by choosing to apply
as a member of the Movement Charter Drafting

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Committee.

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As I come from in North Africa, I really thought
that insights from my region needed to be

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in elaborating this document, in writing this
document.

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I wanted to join other people from different
regions in the world from different interests

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and representing different stakeholders either
affiliates or the Foundation or online volunteers

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in order to work all together.

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I joined the Committee just a few weeks ago
hoping to translate the principles of the

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2030 recommendations into tangible structures
for our movement.

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One of my main motivations is to make those
structures more accessible for people to join

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the movement and then have access to power
and influence within it.

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For me being part of the MCDC is a way to
give back to my local community and other

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amazing people especially from other underrepresented
communities in such strategic processes.

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As I've been navigating through different
spaces in the movement it became clear to

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me that we need structural changes and that
the Charter is the time and place to make it

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happen.

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I love the idea of reimagining how our movement
can be, but I didn't want it to be just in

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my imagination so now I am a proud member
of the MCDC and I truly hope I can bring value

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to its outcomes.

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Currently we are working on drafting subcommittees
so that we can have parts of the document

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written.

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We are planning to produce the Charter by
2024 and we really would like to do it in

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collaboration with the community and with
all the other stakeholders so that we can

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be able to deliver this really key document
that will be very helpful for setting up the

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Global Council or setting up a lot of other
structures and guiding the governance of the

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movement in the future as it is recommended
by the 2030 strategy.

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You can expect from the content clear definitions
of stakeholders and their responsibilities

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as well as the description of new entities
such as hubs and the Global Council. The Charter

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and its consequent ratification is also the
mechanism for which the Global Council will

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be instituted.

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We can understand the Movement Charter as
a document that anyone who reads it can understand

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our governance model and how we work as this
complex ecosystem made by so many different

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stakeholders.

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Stay tuned for a lot of work that's coming
from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee.

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We're really eager to see how we can play a
better role to make sure that we're creating

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a navigation roadmap, a constitution for the
movement that really finds ways to showcase

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the power that we have but also what are the
roles, the responsibilities, the dues, and

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obligations that we all have to be part of
this work.

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As to why as a community we need it, the Movement
Charter is there to basically address a number

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of the difficulties we have between resourcing
and authority of the Foundation, the community

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and the affiliates and the sites are willing
to change and the Movement Charter is going

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to lay out how that's going to happen.

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So this is very important that we agree on
one set of fair rules: how we organize ourselves,

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how we cooperate, how we share responsibilities
and resources, how we support each other,

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and how we hold each other accountable.

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So the process of drafting the Movement Charter,
it should go by different stages we should

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draft it first, then review it with the community,
then fix any missing stuff, review any other

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stuff, add, remove, then review it again.

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Iterations - so many iterations.

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We hope the Movement Charter to be ready for
ratification after the summer of 2023, but

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it all will depend on your feedback.

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Thank you for your time.

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We look forward to talking with you to build
a stronger movement together!