 So, what the purpose and scope of our work, we mainly work on three blocks. It's Affiliate Recognition and De-Recognition process, which was done by one of the subcommittee. We are working on Affiliate Conflict Management, exactly my colleague Wojcik is from that subcommittee. We are trying to fix issues and resolve the problems in the affiliate. We are working on Affiliate Capacity Building, some work already done. For example, we prepared a bylaw development video and our resources for our affiliates, but many things need to be done and in the near future we'll present that too. And moment contribution, it's mainly that we are attending different conferences, original international, within our work and presenting the outcome work and helping the community to better understand our input. Starting with our subcommittee work, in recognition committee, the process is that when you are submitting the user group, our staff members are starting the criteria review process and if you are in line with all criteria, we are starting searching the thematic or geographically proposal of your affiliates and if you are crossing the lines in different affiliates, we are asking them to provide some feedback about you. And then if everything is good, the committee is starting to review that application and at the end we are wanting to recognize or not of your affiliates, but mainly we are recognizing all the affiliates. In chapters and thematic organization recognition process, it's more formal and it's some kind of different than user groups because, well, when you are becoming the chapter or thematic organization, it needs to be registered in your country and have a non-profit status within the country. There we are asking for you to provide bylaws of your organization for us and after that we are starting to checking up your bylaws and if it's in line with the Wikimedia values and in line with your country's policy, we are asking to provide for us criteria review and we are reviewing your criteria in line with criteria review by the staff and also by the AFCOM members. And at the end, we are preparing a resolution for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. There is just to know that AFCOM is not recognizing the chapters or thematic organization, it's Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation recognizing that. Without conflicts, it's my colleague who will present. Yeah, unfortunately I'm the only conflict resolution team subcommittee member here. We have two people more, they are both, well, attending remotely, I hope, Benoit and Jeffrey. Also we have the rest of the recognitions committee here, that's Joy, that's Bashach and Suyosh, yeah, but conflicts resolution. When things don't go well in an affiliate or between affiliates, you turn to us. And that's where we are made aware that something is going wrong. Please note, AFCOM does not proactively investigate conflicts. Conflicts need to be submitted. Conflict situations need to be submitted to AFCOM with an ask with a request to act on it. We have an internal review of the incoming materials. We've had some help from the outside with building a case pack or ways to proceed. We're still learning this. We are all volunteers and we're not professionals in conflict resolution always. This is also where a case lead is assigned to a conflict. Someone who will be working with this particular case from the beginning to the end. We do our investigations. We do our investigations ourselves or we ask other teams at the foundation to assist us. We might work with trust and safety. We might work with legal. We might work with grants. This is where it all gets interconnected. How do we do investigations? Well, it does depend on the case. We might just do email correspondence. We might do interviews, meetings online, meetings in person. We try to reach a conclusion. At the end of the process, I'm sorry, we present our findings to the whole committee during our monthly meeting and the whole committee also gets a chance to comment on what we have found in our investigations. What next steps we propose, if any. At the end, we make an agreement. We communicate our decision, AFCOM's decision to whoever reported a conflict case. We like to follow up on stuff. I'm happy to say that things that I did in the past for AFCOM, I followed up on them, the conflict doesn't return, which is good, and I wanted to stay this way. Basically, I don't want to deal with any conflicts from the start, but hope there aren't any. This is the main workflow of the conflict intervention subcommittee, and I'll hand it back to Mehman, now to Dumisani. I'll hand it over to Dumisani, who is one of our two staff support people. The other is Manav, sitting over there. I'll hand it over to Dumisani to tell you about compliance monitoring. Thanks, Wojciech. I'll run through this one quickly. So you've heard about the recognition, you've heard about the conflicts, but what happens in between with AFCOM once you've been recognized as a group? Well, there's compliance monitoring, which is where you most likely have received an email from me, if you're an affiliate contact person saying, hey, your report is due in the next 30 days, or you have gone past your reporting due date. So how does that work? For user groups, which is the first side, you are going to get four notices from me in terms of the compliance for your report submission. At the end of the four notices, if you still haven't submitted your report, which means around six months after the date that your report was due for your affiliate, it gets into what we call an automatic day recognition. So your affiliate status lapses. And for you to get it back, you need to submit a new application. For chapters and thematic organizations, which is longer reports, financial audits, and so on, we give them up to nine months to comply from the date that their recognition was done. And again, for them as well, once they haven't submitted that report after nine months, they get into what we call a day recognition process, which is more conversations about what's going on into the chapter and is it remediable? If it is not remediable, you end up with that chapter losing its status as well. So that takes a little bit longer. Two updates on this. AFCOM has realized after the pandemic that happened and with the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine that there are circumstances where affiliates will not be able to provide a report due to circumstances outside of their control. So we've introduced an additional status in the compliance, which we call a deferred status. Now that deferred status means you need to send us an email and say, hey, there's things happening in my country that's present, preventing me from being able to run activities or write a report. I do not want to lose the affiliation status, so I need an additional year to comply. And once that has been submitted, AFCOM reviews it and you'll get that deferred status. It does not mean that it's a pass, it's a free pass. At the end of the extension time you'll have given, you still need to tell us what you did during that time of the deferment status. The last update on the compliance is AFCOM has been asked many times, what's a model activities report looking like? And so they've been working on a standardized reporting format, which will then be shared with affiliates going forward. So you can understand how better to report the impacts of the work that your organization is doing. And that's me. Yeah, I just want to add here that to submit, like, to prepare a report, it's not so complicated. We recognize that different, like user groups and affiliates have different possibilities to have any activities. So just even if you are meeting online or doing some edit at online, it's also activity. So you can put that activities to your report and submit for us. And this is our internal workload management process. As an AFCOM, like committee, we have monthly meetings where participate all AFCOM members and plus staff and plus the board liaisons and even the guests if there is need. Plus we have officer's meeting. This meeting between AFCOM chair, vice chair, treasurer and secretary. Plus our advisors and board of trustees liaisons also taking part on this. We have two subcommittee meetings for recognition one and for day in hour one for conflict subcommittee, where we in detail way discussing all issues, what's exist or all activities, what we need to done. We have office hours because, well, for time zone or time management, some of the AFCOM members can attend maybe the monthly or subcommittee meetings. So for that, we are giving the possibilities to them, ask their questions or their needs to staff. And we have special meetings if there is request from affiliates or I don't know anyone can submit their request for us. On-demand meetings, yeah. Yeah, basically that's all from AFCOM. If you have any questions or if you want to meet us, you can send the email to AFCOM at wikimedia.org. You can see all information on the Metawiki on our page and you can follow us on social media, like Facebook for the most active one. That's all. Thank you. Yeah, questions. That's the most important thing. Questions are going to be taken by our colleagues. Yeah. Go ahead, Bashalkan. I think I want to ask, maybe it's a bit much to question for different division first for the recognition. Is there any specific criteria that user group can be formed and why it was rejected? Because there's an affiliate chapter in the region. Is there any specific criteria? Because there's some case that was accepted and there's some case that was rejected. Because still now I didn't know any specific criteria was rejected or was accepted because sometimes AFCOM just say that because our discussion, it is coincided with another chapter's region so we doesn't accept it that. And the second question is, is there any specific timeline to address a conflict that's happening in the affiliate? Because sometimes when we submit a problem, the problem has become bigger and bigger over time and there's no solution of this after AFCOM come to us. Thank you. Sorry about the question. Thank you. You want to address or? OK. OK. About recognition. Well, for recognition we have clear criteria which is listed on the meta-wiki for user groups, for chapters, for thematic organization. You need to follow these criteria and submit your application. And there is specific dates, like specific timeline because recognition is different than conflict because in conflict side there is no timeline because this is conflict. But for recognition we have timeline. It's around one or two months to become recognized by affiliation cause. If of course there is no any specific issues with your geographical scope or thematic scope, yeah, there is timeline. And regarding the crossing lines between the affiliates, we are trying to solve this issue with all affiliates. If, for example, there is some situation then we can meet between the affiliates and set a bridge between you so you can solve if that affiliates your issues. And if your application was denied, that's no problem. After six months you can reapply with more better situation. If I can add a clarification to that. When we have a new application for an affiliate, we always look at what's happening in your geographic region or your thematic region. Are there any organizations that are already operating there? And we always ask them, is it OK for you to have a new affiliate operating in your area? If they say yes, of course, the affiliate status is granted. If they say no, we try to search for ways to work with existing affiliates so as to prevent conflicts in the future. Because if, at the start, existing affiliates don't agree to a new affiliate being created, well, that's going to result in some nasty situations in the future. There is only one minute. Anyone? Oh. First, it's Adam. OK, very short, but not easy question. As Afghan members, what is your take on the MCDC propositions and the transformation into a global council for recognizing affiliations? Yeah, it's a widely questioned. So quickly, if I say, we are closely working with MCDC team. Like we have online meetings with them. We discuss our work, we present our workflow for them. And we acknowledge that they are prepared some ideas for us on MCDC. We also work with a board of trustees to prepare the affiliate strategy, which will be realized in coming months, I guess. So yeah, we are taking active steps with the MCDC and with the board of trustees on strategies and in the future. So that's a very quick question. Quick question? Well, most quick question, please. Hello, everyone. We are from Timoreste, and we are representative for Wikipedia tattoo in between Australia and Indonesia. Oh, we know. In the middle of East Timore. This is our first time in Wikimania. We would like to apply for the affiliation for the Wikipedia team at Timoreste. But some of us are new in the Wikipedia. There's not a lot editing. If it's possible, do we run the affiliation to be a user group? Yeah, sure. There is two ways. If you want to listen to us, you can reach out for any of our members from here during the conference days. Or you can reach out via email, afcomedwikmedia.org. And we can arrange a meeting. Or we will provide the more specific resources. But all resources, as I said, it's on Metawiki. You just need to search Affiliations Committee at the bottom. There is a template. And all resources by Afcom is there. So that's it. That's all. Thank you.