*Hi everyone, In honour of Women’s History Month, the Community Engagement
department is hosting a series of conversations with community members
about Women in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects. Our
conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our work:
Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each conversation
will have two community members presenting on their work, and 15-20 minutes
at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and discussion. The goal
of these discussions is to foster understanding of challenges and
inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to engage with
our communities to help better address them.These conversations will be
online events, streamed on YouTube, and hosted on BlueJeans. If you would
like to participate in these events, please add the event to your calendar,
or sign up on wiki: - Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018,
17:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator). - Women in
leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop) -
Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).If you find this conversation
series interesting, I would greatly appreciate your support spreading the
word. Please feel free to invite anyone you think might have something to
add to the conversations. I look forward to seeing many of you online!Best,
María*
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
*Hi everyone, In honour of Women’s History Month, the Community Engagement
department is hosting a series of conversations with community members
about Women in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>,
and what their experience is like contributing to our projects. Our
conversations will focus on women within three strategic areas of our work:
Programs, Technical Spaces, and Leadership positions. Each conversation
will have two community members presenting on their work, and 15-20 minutes
at the end for conversation, follow up questions, and discussion. The goal
of these discussions is to foster understanding of challenges and
inequalities that women face throughout our movement, and to engage with
our communities to help better address them.These conversations will be
online events, streamed on YouTube, and hosted on BlueJeans. If you would
like to participate in these events, please add the event to your calendar,
or sign up on wiki: - Women in Wikimedia programs: Thursday, March 8, 2018,
17:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzNqdGxuNWttazNwMGZ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Monika Sengul-Jones (OCLC Wikipedian in Residence) and Luisina
Ferrante (Wikimedia Argentina education coordinator). - Women in
leadership: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 19:00 UTC (add to calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGJqaXQzaTlmb3ZpMnJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Mervat Salman (Wiki Arabia 2015 organizer) and Natalia
Szafran-Kozakowska (CEE Spring coordinator, and Polish Wikipedia sysop) -
Women in technical spaces: Wednesday, March 21st, 15:00 UTC (add to
calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzFqMWV2YXZlc3VrYjJ…>)
(sign up on wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Women_in_the_Wikimedia…>)
Presenters: Josephine Lim (Mediawiki contributor) and Ciell (organizer of
all-women hackathon in the Netherlands).If you find this conversation
series interesting, I would greatly appreciate your support spreading the
word. Please feel free to invite anyone you think might have something to
add to the conversations. I look forward to seeing many of you online!Best,
María*
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach project manager, L&E
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
Hi All,
I’m sharing a call for participation in a survey about Wikimedia Commons. The student running the survey is a young woman with whom I have been working on a project about broadening participation. Please feel free to share with others.
Thanks!
Amanda / Mssemantics (EN Wiki)
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Do you like playing mobile games? Do you like to take pictures? Do you want to share your photos with the world?
If so, we’d love to get your thoughts on a potential new mobile game that involves contributing your photos to Wikimedia Commons--a free resource used by people all over the world.
Please take 15-20 minutes and fill out our survey!
The survey is completely voluntary, so you can opt out at any time. We will not ask for your contact details unless you choose to be entered into a raffle to win one of four $25 Amazon gift certificates. If you do choose to be entered into this raffle, we may contact you just once in the future to ask if you would be interested in having a brief conversation over Skype, Hangouts, IM, or an application of your choice. Drawings for the raffle will take place 15 February 2018. You must be 18 or older to participate in the survey and the drawing.
To access the survey please click here<https://tinyurl.com/ycasf7xv>. If the survey does not open automatically, please copy and paste the following link into your internet browser's address bar:
https://tinyurl.com/ycasf7xv
Questions about this survey? Email: vaibhavi(a)uw.edu<mailto:vaibhavi@uw.edu>
Thanks for your time!
A recent article that may be of interest to members of this list:
Classification and Its Consequences for Online Harassment: Design Insights from HeartMob
Online harassment is a pervasive and pernicious problem. Techniques like natural language processing and machine learning are promising approaches for identifying abusive language, but they fail to address structural power imbalances perpetuated by automated labeling and classification. Similarly, platform policies and reporting tools are designed for a seemingly homogenous user base and do not account for individual experiences and systems of social oppression. This paper describes the design and evaluation of HeartMob, a platform built by and for people who are disproportionately affected by the most severe forms of online harassment. We conducted interviews with 18 HeartMob users, both targets and supporters, about their harassment experiences and their use of the site. We examine systems of classification enacted by technical systems, platform policies, and users to demonstrate how 1) labeling serves to validate (or invalidate) harassment experiences; 2) labeling motivates bystanders to provide support; and 3) labeling content as harassment is critical for surfacing community norms around appropriate user behavior. We discuss these results through the lens of Bowker and Star’s classification theories and describe implications for labeling and classifying online abuse. Finally, informed by intersectional feminist theory, we argue that fully addressing online harassment requires the ongoing integration of vulnerable users’ needs into the design and moderation of online platforms.
http://www.lindsayblackwell.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Classification-a…
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