Sounds perfectly reasonable in my opinion. Have started discussion here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ombudsman_commission
J On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:15 AM Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear WMF Board members, > > The Ombuds Commission acts on your behalf as part of the movements > governance processes and it is, therefore, the WMF board that > authorizes Ombuds policies. The Wikimedia project systems and policies > for the commission were established many years ago with rare > amendments since, and are not harmonized on the use of the word > "ombuds". For example, though the email contact group uses "ombuds", > the detailed policy page on Meta uses "ombudsman" and refers to > members of the group as "ombudsmen". As a gender-neutral form is in > common International English and American English usage and is already > used in some places and not others, can the WMF board agree that the > gender-neutral term is desirable in line with the goals of the > Wikimedia Foundation strategy and should be applied systematically? > > With your agreement, this would then harmonize in the names of email > groups, the group name configured into the system on Meta and the > wording of policies, and help avoid an accidental bias towards > identifying ombuds members as men. As this is a question of > harmonization, rather than a change in process, policy or scope, this > is a style issue rather than a change that required a resolution or a > community RfC. > > For those unaware, the Ombuds Commission "investigates complaints > about infringements of the Privacy Policy, the Access to nonpublic > personal data policy, the CheckUser policy and the oversight policy on > any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. They also investigate > for the Board the compliance of local CheckUser or Oversight policies > or guidelines with the global CheckUser and Oversight policies."[1] > > Links: > 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission > 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/ombudsman > > Thanks, > Fae > -- > [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
