Hello Wikimedians :-)
The Wikimedia Foundation Support and Safety team, along with the
Anti-Harassment Tools Team, is conducting a survey on the use of the
English Wikipedia Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents to handle conflicts
and harassment.
It’s the first survey of it’s kind and is important information for
deciding on improvements. We are trying to get as many diverse opinions and
voices as possible. In addition to the people that use it often, we need to
hear from people who post on it rarely but read the board frequently.
I want to make sure that you folks who edit English Wikipedia know about
the survey. And I encourage you to participate if you have some experience
with noticeboard..
Here is the link to sign up and more information it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_health_initiative_on_Engl…
It is also possible to request a copy of survey by email without signing up
on wiki.
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Warm regards,
Sydney Poore
Community Advocate
Support and Safety,
Anti-Harassment Tools team,
Wikipedia Foundation
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Ciao! I just translated this article from Italian. I was pushing myself to
translate more articles, faster, for the November drive. Unfortunately, it
didn't have any references and it's a BLP. So it automatically triggered a
speedy delete process. If anybody could help add references, I'd be forever
grateful!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriana_Civile
J.Hy
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I have been woman
for a long time
beware my smile
--Audre Lorde
Hi all!
Since July 2016 [1], the Learning and Evaluation team has been invested in
understanding what leadership means in our movement, and how we can best
support it. On Thursday, November 16 at 9 am PST (1700 UTC), we will host a
public meeting to share what we have learned so far, and how we have been
working to support community leaders. Follow the stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbg2w0RnFk and ask questions via IRC
(#wikimedia-office).
The first step was the Leadership Development Dialogue, a conversation
about what leadership means for our communities, and how the Wikimedia
Foundation can best support it. It was hosted by the Learning and
Evaluation team, part of the Community Engagement department.
The conversation touched on topics like what words best suited this area of
work, and also what skills identified a good leader, and how we could best
collaborate across the movement to provide support within our existing
infrastructures (e.g., Learning Days [2] and the Wikimedia Resource Center
[3]) and beyond.
What does this mean to your local community and your work? How can you join
these efforts?
Join us to learn more about what we have learned from community members
about leadership in the movement, and where we want to go next.
Participation is encouraged via IRC (#wikimedia-office). A recording of the
event will be available later on our youtube channel.
Hope to see many of you there!
Best,
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
Leadership_Development_Dialogue
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_Day_events
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Leadership_Development…>Wikimedia
Resource Center
This is a body of research going back to at least 2008, usually referred to
in the literature as "Cortina’s theory of selective incivility". It
categorizes types of selective incivility, and has data showing that
selective incivility causes marginalized groups to leave organizations.
"That is, 'generally' uncivil words and deeds make no overt reference to
gender or race (or any other social dimension). Nevertheless, incivility
may sometimes represent a covert manifestation of gender and racial bias
when women and people of color are selectively targeted."
The most frequently cited study is Selective Incivility as Modern
Discrimination in Organizations (2013):
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0149206311418835
I'm aware that some moderated accounts for this list have been under
moderation for a very long time, and in practice some recent posts
from these accounts took so long to get through the moderation queue
that they became irrelevant.
Are there any views on having an amnesty, and removing all
restrictions? This would be a nice gesture of good faith and reduce
expectations on current list mods.
Thanks,
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
reposting here - I read the English article and found it very interesting,
if only to remind us how far we have come on enwiki (from 15.5% to 17%)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eduardo Testart <etestart(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:55 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries
in Wikipedia
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
One of the members from Wikimedia Chile, independently from the chapter and
before he became a member, was directly involved in the development of the
following article, that adress the gender inequality (or gender bias), and
which gives the title to the email:
*https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.
1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4
<https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.
1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4>*
It was published almost a year and half ago (March 1, 2016), and from an
internal and informal conversation that occurred yesterday in the Chapter,
he shared the link to the complete study
<https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.
1140/epjds/s13688-016-0066-4>
(in English). Worth to mention is that he presented preliminary results
<https://www.slideshare.net/carnby/wmcl2015-investigando-usando-wikipedia>
(in Spanish) about it in the Wikimedia Chile Conference
<https://wikimedia.cl/Conferencia_Wikimedia_Chile_2015> from 2015.
I read the complete article yesterday, and found it extremely interesting,
so I took the liberty to share it here, in case you haven’t had the chance
to read it yet.
Also, the article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License :)
Cheers!
--
Eduardo Testart
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Hey Risker/Anne -- it was great to meet you at Wikimania! Thanks for taking
a few minutes to poke around the program and for the shout-out on the
listserv. Would you consider being a Wikipedia guide in the program? The
course participants would really benefit from meeting and conversing with a
real humans of Wikipedia in the discussion spaces. The link is here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XPTQXK Thanks for your consideration
Monika
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> I had the opportunity to meet Monika at Wikimania, and poked just a little
> bit at this project. It looks really interesting! Thanks Monika for
> telling us about it.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On 9 August 2017 at 10:56, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.monika(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all -
> >
> > I'm Monika, longtime reader of this list! I've been following this
> > conversation on increasing the diversity of Wikipedias contributors with
> > some interest, as well as the conversation on professional connections on
> > Wikipedia spaces. It seems relevant and valuable to share with this group
> > details about the project in working on -- and to invite your help.
> >
> > I'm a WIR for Oclc's 18-month Wikipedia + Libraries project.
> > http://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/wikipedia-libraries.html
> >
> > This fall the project is running an online training program for up to 500
> > US public library staff to learn about engaging Wikipedia in their
> > libraries for their communities. The curriculum will cover a wide variety
> > of subjects specific to English Wikipedia (it's history, pillars,
> community
> > norms, issues of reliability, authority control, organization and user
> > roles, editing and editorial flow, COI, etc.). Through observations,
> > exercises, case studies and small assignments, the participants will
> slowly
> > learn best practices, then gain strategies to apply what they know about
> > Wikipedia to improve info literacy in their communities. By the end the
> > goal is to have the participants be confident that they can engage
> > Wikipedia, understand what they are doing and how it works, and make a
> plan
> > for next step in editing and designing programming.
> >
> > The course will take place on Webjunction, a learning place for libraries
> > that's been serving 80,000+ library staff globally since 2003. By
> > participating in the nine week course, US public library staff will earn
> a
> > certificate and some can apply for continuing education credits for their
> > participation. As a WebJunction course, the focus will be on how
> Wikipedia
> > editing and programming is relevant to library work. Public library staff
> > participating will see how Wikipedia make sense to them as information
> > professionals and possibly, give them reasons to make Wikipedia editing
> and
> > outreach a part of their staff duties. The curriculum will make
> suggestions
> > about activities to try at their libraries and include guest speakers who
> > have edited and done outreach as public library staff.
> >
> > Given the interest in this thread on helping newcomers, and how that
> > works, I wanted to share the specifics of this project and I invite folks
> > in this list to participate in the program as a volunteer guide for one
> (or
> > more) of the course modules.
> >
> > When I reading Fluffernutter's story, and Pine's, I was smiling - thank
> > you for sharing, I completely agree, the times I've felt most encouraged
> in
> > trying something new have been when I am genuinely curious and feel
> > comfortable in asking questions -- for me this has also been in a course
> > environment; a safe learning space is critical to gaining the confidence
> > to participate in something new. I think it holds for a big project like
> > Wikipedia, which has many esoteric technical features and so many guides
> > and policies.
> >
> > For this reason I am interested in recruiting a few thoughtful, helpful
> > editors to join this program to mentor / guide public library staff. Most
> > of the participants in the nine week course (Sept 13 - Nov 15; six live
> > online sessions) will be new to editing and the technical/community
> aspects
> > of editing. ~77% of public library respondents in the preview webinar
> > survey said they use Wikipedia weekly but have never edited Wikipedia.
> 98%
> > said Wikipedia is relevant to their jobs. They would benefit from meeting
> > and getting help and support from real human Wikipedians familiar with
> the
> > social norms and features of the technical interface. In return, you can
> > learn more about public libraries, what they do, their services and
> > missions. Public libraries and Wikipedia share many values -- including
> > commitments to civility and providing free open access to information.
> >
> > The course will take place on WebJunction's learning platform. To ensure
> > privacy, the interactive forums are all there. Guiding and mentoring
> would
> > require about hour or three for a 2-week module (and you could help out
> in
> > more than one module). Modules are (roughly): 1) about Wikipedia, 2)
> > editing 101, 3) Wikipedia and information literacy programs, 4) Wikipedia
> > and community outreach.
> >
> > I am glad for the opportunity to share this with the gender gap list, and
> > I hope that if you are curious you will reach out. I'm actually writing
> > this en-route to Montreal (first time at Wikimania! Excited! Pls pardon
> > grammar and informality, I'm writing this on my phone!) and will be
> > presenting the project at 4pm on Thursday and Sunday at 11:00am... feel
> > free to email me directly or attend if you are also coming. also share!
> > There's also a simple form to fill out if you prefer too
> >
> > https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XPTQXK
> >
> > Thanks to the members of this list for your consideration / attention to
> > my email and for the dynamic conversations over the years on
> tough-to-solve
> > issues ...
> >
> > /MSJ
> >
> >
> > Sent from my mobile phone possibly using voice control, please pardon
> > errors
> >
> >
> >
>
I had the opportunity to meet Monika at Wikimania, and poked just a little
bit at this project. It looks really interesting! Thanks Monika for
telling us about it.
Risker/Anne
On 9 August 2017 at 10:56, Monika Sengul-Jones <jones.monika(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> I'm Monika, longtime reader of this list! I've been following this
> conversation on increasing the diversity of Wikipedias contributors with
> some interest, as well as the conversation on professional connections on
> Wikipedia spaces. It seems relevant and valuable to share with this group
> details about the project in working on -- and to invite your help.
>
> I'm a WIR for Oclc's 18-month Wikipedia + Libraries project.
> http://www.webjunction.org/explore-topics/wikipedia-libraries.html
>
> This fall the project is running an online training program for up to 500
> US public library staff to learn about engaging Wikipedia in their
> libraries for their communities. The curriculum will cover a wide variety
> of subjects specific to English Wikipedia (it's history, pillars, community
> norms, issues of reliability, authority control, organization and user
> roles, editing and editorial flow, COI, etc.). Through observations,
> exercises, case studies and small assignments, the participants will slowly
> learn best practices, then gain strategies to apply what they know about
> Wikipedia to improve info literacy in their communities. By the end the
> goal is to have the participants be confident that they can engage
> Wikipedia, understand what they are doing and how it works, and make a plan
> for next step in editing and designing programming.
>
> The course will take place on Webjunction, a learning place for libraries
> that's been serving 80,000+ library staff globally since 2003. By
> participating in the nine week course, US public library staff will earn a
> certificate and some can apply for continuing education credits for their
> participation. As a WebJunction course, the focus will be on how Wikipedia
> editing and programming is relevant to library work. Public library staff
> participating will see how Wikipedia make sense to them as information
> professionals and possibly, give them reasons to make Wikipedia editing and
> outreach a part of their staff duties. The curriculum will make suggestions
> about activities to try at their libraries and include guest speakers who
> have edited and done outreach as public library staff.
>
> Given the interest in this thread on helping newcomers, and how that
> works, I wanted to share the specifics of this project and I invite folks
> in this list to participate in the program as a volunteer guide for one (or
> more) of the course modules.
>
> When I reading Fluffernutter's story, and Pine's, I was smiling - thank
> you for sharing, I completely agree, the times I've felt most encouraged in
> trying something new have been when I am genuinely curious and feel
> comfortable in asking questions -- for me this has also been in a course
> environment; a safe learning space is critical to gaining the confidence
> to participate in something new. I think it holds for a big project like
> Wikipedia, which has many esoteric technical features and so many guides
> and policies.
>
> For this reason I am interested in recruiting a few thoughtful, helpful
> editors to join this program to mentor / guide public library staff. Most
> of the participants in the nine week course (Sept 13 - Nov 15; six live
> online sessions) will be new to editing and the technical/community aspects
> of editing. ~77% of public library respondents in the preview webinar
> survey said they use Wikipedia weekly but have never edited Wikipedia. 98%
> said Wikipedia is relevant to their jobs. They would benefit from meeting
> and getting help and support from real human Wikipedians familiar with the
> social norms and features of the technical interface. In return, you can
> learn more about public libraries, what they do, their services and
> missions. Public libraries and Wikipedia share many values -- including
> commitments to civility and providing free open access to information.
>
> The course will take place on WebJunction's learning platform. To ensure
> privacy, the interactive forums are all there. Guiding and mentoring would
> require about hour or three for a 2-week module (and you could help out in
> more than one module). Modules are (roughly): 1) about Wikipedia, 2)
> editing 101, 3) Wikipedia and information literacy programs, 4) Wikipedia
> and community outreach.
>
> I am glad for the opportunity to share this with the gender gap list, and
> I hope that if you are curious you will reach out. I'm actually writing
> this en-route to Montreal (first time at Wikimania! Excited! Pls pardon
> grammar and informality, I'm writing this on my phone!) and will be
> presenting the project at 4pm on Thursday and Sunday at 11:00am... feel
> free to email me directly or attend if you are also coming. also share!
> There's also a simple form to fill out if you prefer too
>
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8XPTQXK
>
> Thanks to the members of this list for your consideration / attention to
> my email and for the dynamic conversations over the years on tough-to-solve
> issues ...
>
> /MSJ
>
>
> Sent from my mobile phone possibly using voice control, please pardon
> errors
>
>
>