 Okay, now I'm on volume. Well hello, so we've had a presentation from the Affiliations Committee. The Affiliations Committee is just one of the many committees that we have within the Wikimedia movement. So my name is Dumisani Dubani, I work for the Wikimedia Foundation. My title is Senior Community Governance Strategist. It's a long way of saying, I support committees that work within the foundation. So the best way to think about the governance within the movement is to look at what the movement consists of. In the big circle we've got your Wikimedia interfaces, we've got the Wikimedia content and all the projects that are in them. Outside of that we've got contributors, we've got external free knowledge, we've got knowledge graphs, proprietary content and all of this is part of our ecosystem. The question is, who ensures proper oversight and governance of all of this? Well, we need committees for this, right? But who will serve in those committees? How are they elected and who are they accountable to? Here's another overview of the committees that we have within the Wikimedia system and I divide these into committees that are formed by and report to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and on the black is the arbitration committees. Now these committees do not report to the Board of Trustees so these are independent committees working on language projects and every other committee that you see there is one way or the other linked or reports to the Board of Trustees. I again divide this into four buckets that were buckets overused but let's use it. So the first one is on content, the second one is on projects, then you have community and then you have foundation. The work that the foundation does also requires some sort of oversight and collaboration with the movement. Then and that's the existing structure. There's two committees that are coming in that haven't been formed yet which is the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee which is a long way. So we use the U4C committee that is the one that's going to implement the Universal Code of Conduct and then we've got the movement charter committee that's drafting committee that's going to tell us how the Wikimedia Global Council is going to look and that will most probably have committees or subcommittees of its own. So there's a lot of committees happening in the movement that all needs to be coordinated and supported. I in particular with my colleague Manav support the Affiliations Committee directly and we also indirectly support the other committees that are listed in there. So all of these committees will go into details into how they actually work and function and what they actually do. So if my colleague is already online because the next slide was he's online. Okay excellent. Hello Joe. Hello everybody. Hi. Can you all hear me? I hope you can. Yes we can. So tell us about the committees that you work with Joe. Cool. I feel like I'm announcing the votes at Eurovision. It's awesome. Hi my name is Joe Sutherland. I'm the lead trust and safety specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation based here in not-so-sami San Francisco in California. As Dumasani was introducing I work with some of the content committees as a definer. Most notably the arbitration committee is where I work directly with ILEAs with them in a series of monthly meetings but I can go through what other committees do from the slides. So some of them are a lot broader in scope than others. So the Ombuds commission for example is starting with that one. They investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy especially in the use of the check user and the suppression tools and advise the foundation on how to handle concerns. So they'll receive reports. They'll evaluate those reports along their lines. They'll discuss it as a committee, as a commission and then they'll present their recommendations to the trust and safety and legal teams at the foundation. And we will enact a course of action based on that. The case review committee is in charge of reviewing appeals of foundation actions or trust and safety office actions in particular. This is an independent committee that can hear appeals for actions that we have taken or actions that we did not take if somebody disagrees with the outcome that we came to. That helps us to not overstep our authority and not overstep the community's authority in the actions that we take. So it allows that sort of layer of appeal there. The arbitration committee, so there's 11 of those. They're all varying stages of activity and varying stages of maturity in terms of the policy and the communities that they support. But they are groups that service the last step of the dispute resolution process. The most sort of notable of those in the most sort of established and sort of bureaucratic, if you like, of those is the English Wikipedia. That's the one I support as for the English Wikipedia arbitration committee. But we also have staff members involved in liaison work with the Russian, the Polish and until it dissolved a few years ago the French Wikipedia arbitration committee as well. As well as the German Wikipedia arbitration committee. So there's a bunch of those. They all support Wikipedia projects, dispute resolution processes as the sort of absolute last stage that make binding decisions on user conduct. So they'll make a binding decision in a topic area, for example. And that their sort of decision will be sort of binding on everybody on the project. And then finally we have language committee here. I'm not as familiar with language committee. This is the committee though that will hear requests for new language projects. They develop clear policy documentation around those projects and the proposal. And they'll support and coordinate that with with folks on things like the incubator wiki and is just that through that whole process of getting a language from requests through student on our productions. So, yeah, very important committee, but not one that we see spoken about very often, but they do exist and they are there. So, great. That's all I have from this slide. I'll pass it back to Dewisani for the next one, which I believe is about the affiliations committee. Yeah, thanks. Thanks Joe. Thanks Joe. Thanks for staying up. I think it's very late where you are. So, for my end, in terms of community and foundation, I will talk about the affiliations committee. AFCOM is here. This is entrusted with advising the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and reviewing applications for approval for new movement affiliates, national, sub-national, thematic organizations, user group, and who knows, even hubs, we don't know yet. We don't know yet. Within the foundation work, we've got the elections committee, which works with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees to design and plan community-led elections, particularly the ones that end up electing people into the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. And then, newest of our communities is the regional fund committee. And I think you will have seen on the program that Jessica will be running a couple of those clinics on how this funding committee works and how you can join it. But this really is to enable communities in each region to have a central role in setting priorities and allocating funds for specific initiatives. So, these are communities based in regions that help with funding for those regions. So, those are the existing committees. Two new committees as I've alluded to that are coming through that would really need your help in participating in how they get formed and who will serve in those committees. The first one is the U4C, that's the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee. And we currently have the U4BC, which is the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Building Committee that's going to tell us how this committee is going to work. And this will be a co-equal body with other high-level decision-making bodies like your UPCOMs, your UFCOM. So, you will escalate to this body for any Universal Code of Conduct based infringements. The Global Council is the one that's planned or intended to serve as the global structure that will respond to the needs of our movement as a whole and represent communities in an equitable way. So, how will this be formed? The MCDC is busy telling us or at least is busy drafting how that's going to look like. So, that's a lot of committees. There's a lot of involvement that we would like you to have. But what do you need to serve in any of these committees? I think you would need three things or at least ask yourself three questions. The first one is what skills would I bring to this committee? And that would be including things such as a strong reading and writing skills because we are still a text-based community. So, all the complaints that UFCOM gets, all the applications that they get, all the work that the arbitration committees get is text-based. So, you really need to love reading text to be part of these committees. You need to have a good ability to read and write in at least multiple languages other than English. So, you can help the communities and the committees to be able to deal with different applications or different concerns that communities bring up to them. And finally, I think the most one of the important things is at least some good grasp of the wiki markup and comfortable with media wiki because that's where most of the work is happening. Then, the second question you need to ask yourself, does my background add to the diversity of these committees? So, in terms of diversity, we talk about regional diversity, we talk about language diversity. Ask yourself, does your participation add to that? And finally, do I have the proximity to the community that I seek to represent? Specifically, if you are coming from a region that is less represented, at least have some communications or connections within that community so that you are actually properly representing the views from that. How do I apply? We are running, we have started to consolidate the different application types for all these committees. And between October and December will be an opening time for application process for the different committees. In January there will be a vetting and in February we will be working on appointments. So, use that time to apply for these committees because they need you. And finally, any questions? Hopefully not the difficult ones because Joe is gone. Oh, he is here. If you got difficult questions please ask them for Joe. I am here. Nanur has a question. It's a rapid one. You said that this survey will start in October and the building committee for U4C they are finished in November I think. And how it could be that they not be decided who can be on U4C and then the application will start in October. Yes, so the timelines only apply for the existing committees does not apply for the U4C. The U4C will take a different timeline and that will be announced as soon as the U4C BC has completed the work in defining how that committee is going to look like. Next question. Hopefully this is for Joe. Yes Joe, how could you forget about this? It's probably not a committee but I'm wondering there's also code of conduct for technical spaces committee. Does that get some support by your team or different team? Joe, do you want to take that one? I can. I apologize for forgetting you. You weren't on the slides. Of course we do work with the stewards as well. We do treat the stewards as a committee because by all intents and purposes are a committee of volunteers who work on anti-spam and work on global governance issues. The technical code of conduct is not run by us entrusted safety directly. I'm trying to remember who actually deals with them on a day to day basis. I don't know if I have an immediate answer for you but I know it's not a committee that we directly work with on a day to day. Thank you Joe and thanks Martin for asking that because I needed Joe to answer something. Any more questions? It looks like I still have more time. Not the difficult ones. Sorry. You didn't mention gender in the diversity but you didn't have time. What is the current state of gender diversity in the different committees and what are the efforts made to improve it? Yes, so I'm a straight talker and the current state of diversity in these committees is alarming. It's bad. We definitely need more applications to correct that information. Particularly I can speak for what AFCOM is doing. We've now created a guidelines and a list of skills and criteria that we will be looking at for the next round of applications and that does include gender as part of the things that we are looking to add on to it. But you're right. The makeup of committees throughout the movement doesn't reflect the aspirations we have on gender equity and diversity. So it's up to you to help us to correct that. And that's it. I've got one more minute that I can pass on to the next speaker.