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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Vote
Hi/Bona vesprada,

Without meaning at all that I do not respect the results of this voting, I would like to call the attention to the fact that out of 3097 votes, practically 2000 are circumscribed to only 4 big home wikis: en.wiki (1000), de.wiki (500), fr.wiki (200) and es.wiki (150).

Imho it is somehow concerning that 2/3 of the votes of such a key policy are heavily relying on the weight of those major projects. I understand the constraints in participation, but it isn't either a trivial value -considering how much do we read about the WMF efforts to promote the so-called “Global South” communities and the minority language wikis.

There is a great essay on English Wikipedia, ["Wikipedia:Silence does not imply consent when drafting new policies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silence_does_not_imply_consent_when_drafting_new_policies)", that has a very thoughtful background and that I like very much to remind: "Silence implies consensus" is an old standby on Wikipedia. However, with regard to new policies and guidelines, this cannot apply, and silence should instead imply either indifference or a lack of proper exposure. If a proposal produces indifference in the community, it is not necessary. If a proposal has not been adequately exposed to the community, there is no just cause for implementing it as policy.

Kind regards/Salutacions,

Xavier Dengra
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El dilluns, 13 de febrer 2023 a les 20:00, Shani Evenstein <shani@wikimedia.org> va escriure:

> Hello Everyone,
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> Today the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines vote were tallied. We are pleased to report the results show that the Enforcement Guidelines are strongly supported by the community, with 76% of participants voting in support of the Enforcement Guidelines.
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> A report with a summary and analysis of comments submitted in the voting process is being prepared by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct work and will be available soon.
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> Below is a message created by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct work, which has [translations available on Meta-wiki](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforcement_guidelines/Vote_results_announcement).
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> The recent community-wide vote on the [Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforcement_guidelines) has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated.
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> After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. [Statistics](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforcement_guidelines/Voting_statistics) for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon.
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> From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed.
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> I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in this process.
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> This list includes the people who voted in 2022 and those voters who provided comments so we could strengthen and clarify the Enforcement Guidelines into the version the community supports.
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> I especially want to thank the Drafting Committee, who took the time to reconvene and review community feedback from the 2022 Enforcement Guideline vote and continue to engage with the community and feedback throughout 2022.
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> Finally, thank you to the people who voted and shared feedback during this voting period. We look forward to reviewing the report of the feedback and discussing next steps with the rest of the Board.
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> Shani, on behalf of the CAC.
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> [Shani Evenstein Sigalov](https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/)
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> Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
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> Chair, Community Affairs Committee
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> [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)