Glossaire

Anyone who accepts the charter: the diaspora across generations, newcomers, students and people in transit. Take part in Chapters and communities of practice, propose work, and stand for service roles after screening.

Members credentialed for competence in their field and for integrity. Lead peer review, author standards and mentor, while the credential is current.

Lawful organisations that align with the charter: associations, schools, professional bodies. Take part through named representatives, under conflict disclosure.

People or organisations working with the Council on a limited scope. No governance rights.

Participants for a set time and purpose. No governance rights unless the charter grants them.

The only form of support the networks accept. No donations in any form.

A Community Cell, Chapter or programme that is being formed and is not yet chartered or recognised. Only the charter's organs grant recognition.

A page, guide, dossier or service that is planned and not yet written or reviewed. Its page states what is still missing.

A figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.

A figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.

Un chiffre ou une affirmation dont la source n'a pas encore été lue ; il reste dans la file de vérification.

What a figure counts: a stock (people at one date), a flow (movement over a period), remittances (money), a proxy (a country of origin standing in for a community). Figures of different measures are never added.

A measure that stands in for the community because statistics do not count it directly, for example a country of origin. A proxy is named as a proxy.

The United Nations Statistics Division's standard country and area codes for statistical use; the networks list countries and areas by it.

The ISO standard for codes of country subdivisions; first-level units carry their ISO 3166-2 code, read from the iso-codes package with its version and check date.

OCHA's Common Operational Datasets for administrative boundaries; the networks' first source for subdivisions where it exists.

A cell of Uber's open hexagonal hierarchical geospatial index; the networks aggregate pages, bodies and events per cell, never people.