Code of Conduct/FAQ

Frequent Arguments and Questions related to the Code of Conduct for technical spaces. Replies must conform to the policy. Please keep the entries concise and neutral, linking to the policy and discussions for details.

How much work are Committee members expected to put?
As of March 2017, this is hard to predict. For what is worth, the Technical Collaboration's Community Health group (who handles conduct reports submitted to them) processes between one to ten incidents every quarter, the majority of them being equivalent to immediate response cases resolved quickly and without major controversy. About once every quarter there is one case requiring the equivalent of a longer-term response, sometimes connected to one of our major developer events.

We asked the Django project's Code of Conduct Committee, and their answer was ~2 hours a month on average. It varies from zero to many more when there are matters at hand. People also vary in the time they have available so it's not uniform across all members.

Are Committee members required to disclose their legal identity publicly?
No, in the same way that e.g. Stewards are not required to publish their real names either. If a person is known by their username only, they can just keep this identification when they join the Committee. All Committee members need to be identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, following the Access to nonpublic information policy.