On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Caroline Sinders csinders@wikimedia.org wrote:
What I am doing *right now* at the Wikimedia Foundation is the fantastically weird but unsexy of job of designing tools and UI to mitigate online harassment while studying on wiki-harassment. It's not just research but a design schedule of rolling out tools quickly for the community to mitigate the onslaught of a lot of very real problems that are happening as we speak.
Hey, this sounds very interesting Caroline! I realise the data and application are potentially quite sensitive, but to the extent that there are things you can share, it would be super interesting for my students in "Data Science for Design" at the University of Edinburgh to follow along with some of what you are doing.
In Week 6 of the Autumn term we're running a Data Fair and I've invited our University's Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, to come and present some real-world problems that Master's-level students in design can help out with. Again, given the sensitive nature of the problem you're tackling I have to wonder if there is any room for outside helpers on this particular problem -- but it's a fascinating one nonetheless.
Also in Week 6 there's a lecture on "data ethics". Your question, "how do you design and utilize design thinking to make *something right now* and how do you do that without recreating a surveillance tool?" is very much the kind of call to action (and to reflection) that I was asking about earlier on. Thanks for the intro to your project!
If there are ways to get involved without getting in the way, or other related resources that I can share with the students, please follow up with me here or off list.
-Joe