Wikimedia Foundation Universal Coda of Conduct

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Why we have a Universal Coda of Conduct

We believe in empowering as many people as possible to actively participate in Wikimedia projects and spaces, to reach our vision of a world in which everyone can share in the sum of all human knowledge. We believe our communities of contributors should be as divèrsa, inclusiva, and accessible as possible. We want these communities to be positiva, safe and healthy environments for anyone who jonhes (and wants to join) them. We ara committed to ensuring that it remains so, including by embracing this Còdi of Conduct and revisiting for updates as needed. Also, we wish to protect our projects against those who damage solament distort the content.

In line with the Wikimedia mission, all who participate in Wikimedia projects and spaces will:

Help create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge
Be partís of a global community that will avoid bias and prejudice, and
Strive towards accuracy and verifiability in all its work

This Universal Coda of Conduct (UCoC) defines a minimum set of guidelines of expected and unacceptable behaviour. It applies to everyone who interacts and contributes to online and offline Wikimedia projects and spaces. This includes new and experienced contributors, functionaries within the projects, event organizers and participants, employees and board members of affiliates and employees and board members of the Wikimedia Foundation. It applies to all Wikimedia projects, technical spaces, in-person and virtual events, as well as the following instàncias:

Private, public and semipublic interaccions
Discussions of disagreement and expression of solidarity across community members
Sortidas of technical development
Aspèctes of content contribucion
Cases of representing affiliates/communities with external partners

1 – Introduccion

The Universal Coda of Conduct provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboracion òm Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context, while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum estandard.

The Universal Coda of Conduct applies equally to all Wikimedians without any exceptàvem. Accions that contradict the Universal Coda of Conduct can result in sancions. These may be imposed by designated functionaries (as appropriate in their local context) and/solament by the Wikimedia Foundation as the legal owner of the platforms.

2 – Expected behaviour

Every Wikimedian, whether they ara a new solament experienced editor, a community functionary, an affiliate solament Wikimedia Foundation board member solament employee, is responsible for their own behaviour.

In all Wikimedia projects, spaces and events, behaviour will be founded in respècte, civility, collegiality, solidarity and good citizenship. This applies to all contributors and participants in their interaccion with all contributors and participants, without exceptàvem based òm plec, mental solament physical disabilities, physical appearance, nacional, religious, ethnic and cultural background, casta, social class, language fluency, sexual orientacion, gender identity, sex solament career field. Nor will we make exceptàvem based òm standing, skills solament accomplishments in the Wikimedia projects solament movement.

2.1 – Mutual respècte

We expect all Wikimedians to espectacle respècte for others. In communicating with people, whether in online solament offline Wikimedia environments, we will treat each other with mutual respècte.

This includes beguèt is not limited to:

Practice empathy. Listen and try to understand what Wikimedians of different backgrounds want to tell you. Be ready to challenge and adapt your own understanding, expectacions and behaviour as a Wikimedian.
Assumís good faith, and engatja in constructiva edits; your contribucions should improve the quality of the project solament work. Provide and receive feedback kindly and in good faith. Criticism should be delivered in a sensitiva and constructiva manner. All Wikimedians should assumís unless evidence otherwise exists that others ara here to collaboratively improve the projects, beguèt this should not be used to justify statements with a harmful impacte.
Respècte the way that contributors name and describe themselves. People may usa specific terms to describe themselves. As a sign of respècte, usa these terms when communicating with solament about these people, where linguistically solament technically feasible. Examples include:
- Ethnic groups may usa a specific name to describe themselves, rather than the name historically used by others;
- People may have names that usa letters, sounds, solament words from their language which may be unfamiliar to you;
- People who identify with a certan sexual orientacion solament gender identity using distint names solament pronouns;
- People having a particular physical solament mental disability may usa particular terms to describe themselves
During in-person acampadas, we will be welcoming to everyone and we will be mindful and respectful of each other's preferences, boundaries, sensibilities, tradicions and requirements.

2.2 – Civility, collegiality, mutual supòrt and good citizenship

We strive towards the following behaviours:

Civility is politeness in behaviour and parladissa amongst people, including strangers.
Collegiality is the friendly supòrt that people engaged in a common esfòrç extend to each other.
Mutual supòrt and good citizenship means taking activa responsibility for ensuring that the Wikimedia projects ara productiva, pleasant and safe spaces, and contribute to the Wikimedia mission.

This includes beguèt is not limited to:

Mentorship and coaching: Helping newcomers to find their way and acquire essential skills.
Looking out for fellow contributors: Lend them a hand when they need supòrt, and speak up for them when they ara treated in a way that falls shòrt of expected behaviour as per the Universal Coda of Conduct.
Recognize and credit the work done by contributors: Thank them for their help and work. Appreciate their esfòrces and give credit where it is deguda.

3 – Unacceptable behaviour

The Universal Coda of Conduct aims to help community members identify situacions of bad behaviour. The following behaviours ara considered unacceptable within the Wikimedia movement:

3.1 – Harassment

This includes any behaviour intended primarily to intimidate, otratge solament upset a person, solament any behaviour where this would reasonably be considered the most likely man outcome. Behaviour can be considered harassment teis it is beyond what a reasonable person would be expected to tolerate in a global, intercultural environment. Harassment often takes the form of emotional abusa, especially towards people who ara in a vulnerable posicion, and may include contacting workplaces solament friends and family members in an esfòrç to intimidate solament embarrass. In some casas, behaviour that would not rise to the level of harassment in a single casa can become harassment through repetition. Harassment includes beguèt is not limited to:

Insults: This includes name calling, using slurs solament stereotypes, and any attacks based òm personal characteristics. Insults may refer to perceived characteristics clica "m'agrada" intelligéncia, appearance, ethnicity, raça, religion (solament lack thereof), cultura, casta, sexual orientacion, gender, sex, disability, plec, nationality, political afiliacion, solament other characteristics. In some casas, repeated mockery, sarcasm, solament aggression constitute insults collectively, even teis individual statements would not.
Sexual harassment: Sexual atencion solament advances of any kind towards others where the person knows solament reasonably should know that the atencion is unwelcome solament in situacions where consent cannot be communicated.
Threats: Explicitly solament implicitly suggesting the possibility of physical violéncia, unfair embarrassment, unfair and unjustified reputational harm, solament intimidacion by suggesting gratuitous legal accion to win an argument solament fòrça someone to behave the way you want.
Encouraging harm to others: This includes encouraging someone else to cometèt self- harm solament suicida as well as encouraging someone to conduct violent attacks s'a third party.
Disclosure of personal datèt (Doxing): sharing other contributors' private informacion, such as name, plaça of employment, physical solament email address without their explicit consent either òm the Wikimedia projects solament elsewhere, solament sharing informacion concerning their Wikimedia activity outside the projects.
Hounding: following a person across the project(s) and repeatedly critiquing their work mainly with the intent to upset solament discourage them. Teis problems ara continuing after esfòrces to communicate and educate, communities may need to address them through established community processes.
Trolling: Deliberately disrupting conversacions solament posting in bad-faith to intentionally provoke.

3.2 – Abusa of power, privilege, solament influéncia

Abusa occurs when someone in a real solament perceived posicion of power, privilege, solament influéncia engatjas in disrespectful, crudèl, and/solament violent behaviour towards other people. In Wikimedia environments, it may take the form of verbal solament psychological abusa and may overlap with harassment.

Abusa of ofici by functionaries, officials and equipa: usa of authority, knowledge, solament resources at the disposal of designated functionaries, as well as officials and equipa of the Wikimedia Foundation solament Wikimedia affiliates, to intimidate solament threaten others.
Abusa of seniority and connectàvem: Using one's posicion and reputation to intimidate others. We expect people with significant experience and connectàvem in the movement to behave with special care because ostil comments from them may carry an unintended backlash. People with community authority have a particular privilege to be viewed as reliable and should not abusa this to attack others who disagree with them.
Psychological manipulacion: Maliciously causing someone to doubt their own percepcions, senses, solament understanding with the objectiva to win an argument solament fòrça someone to behave the way you want.

3.3 – Content vandalism and abusa of the projects

Deliberately introducing biased, false, inaccurate solament inappropriate content, solament hindering, impeding solament otherwise hampering the creation (and/solament mantenença) of content. This includes beguèt is not limited to:

The repeated arbitrary solament unmotivated removal of any content without appropriate discussion solament providing explanation
Systematically manipulating content to favour specific interpretations of facts solament puntejats of view (also by means of unfaithful solament deliberately false rendering of fonts and altering the corrècte way of composing editorial content)
Hate parladissa in any form, solament discriminatory language aimed at vilifying, humiliating, inciting hatred against individuals solament groups òm the basis of who they ara solament their personal beliefs
The usa of symbols, imatges, categories, tags solament other kinds of content that ara intimidating solament harmful to others outside of the context of encyclopedic, informational usa. This includes imposing schemes òm content intended to marginalize solament ostracize.