All,
We've just purchased a hearing loop for the UK chapter, to make it easier
for those with hearing difficulties to partake in discussions and events.
The loop doesn't have a huge range, so it's not good for full conferences,
and is instead best for smaller meetings of 3-4 people.
We'll work to update the various event pages to include this information in
the next few weeks. This loop can be requested by anyone running or
attending events (provided we know who's in charge of it). I'd be really
keen on hearing from people how it can be "effectively utilised", and
doesn't just sit around gathering dust. Every time that it could be used,
we want it to be used. We'd be happy to lend it to other chapters for short
periods too (although it's a UK/240v charging system).
All the best,
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
Dear Ansuman,
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman <ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> -----------
>
> Me:
> And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
> and selection process, and why?
>
> Vishnu:
> BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
> BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
> INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
> SHARE THE LINK.
>
We have published a blog post on the Program Officer selection process on
September 10, 2013.[1] This has also been shared with the Indian Wikimedia
community as part of the September A2K Newsletter [2], which was posted on
all the Indian Wikimedia lists.
Best,
Vishnu
[1]
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/selection-of-programme-officer-pilot-pro…
[2]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-October/010575.h…
Dear friends,
Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of Activities for the
months of July, August and September 2013. It is also avaliable, as all the
precedent, in Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3…>
Best regards,
--
Jorge A. Sierra
Presidente
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es
July
- 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation of
the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree.
- 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in
Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia
edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and
exercises<https://github.com/DrPantera/wikis4education/tree/master/uca-2012_07>
).
- 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS
project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UCAC2>in "X
Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference
about educational innovation in Madrid.
Proceedings<http://www.uem.es/myfiles/pageposts/jiu/jiu2013/pdf/x_jiiu_2013.pdf?#page=9…>(pages
917-924)
- 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap
in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about doing
activities next year.
- 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia
conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los
artículos más controvertidos de
Wikipedia<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-07-19/opus-dei-y-athletic-de-…>
- 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival *Músicos en la
naturaleza 2013*. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe.
[1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BAsicos_en_la_naturaleza_2…>
August
- 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in Wikimania
with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along with an
extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to keep all
chapters members informed.
- 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong
Kong<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photowikimeetup_in_Hong_Kong_duri…>by
"Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as
of
monuments for WLM13.
- 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong.
- 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in
Edu-III<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/wikiArS,_involving_art_…>(Wikimania)
- 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien
de ellas, pero siempre se
detecta"<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-08-11/hay-empresas-que-pagan-…>
- 16.08.2013:
Agreement<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Colaboraci%C3%B3n_con_la_UPM_sobr…>between
the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications ETSI
of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The first
agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited articles about
physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be expanded or improved
(wording or references). Discussion is going on to expand and formalize the
collaboration.
- 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain
wikimedia.esafter several years
- 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain
- Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in
Wikipedia <http://www.quo.es/tecnologia/errores-wikipedia>
September
- 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director,
and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain.
- 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces
trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por
mí"<http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20130910/54380178639/entrevista-jorge-…>
- 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis
- 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013.
[2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a_2013_-_Sup…>
- 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between
Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League).
[3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_A…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e
interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices
de traducción con la Wikipedia*
[4]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia
Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real.
- 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía.
- 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de
Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students
of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in
Wikimedia.
- 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia
Conference in Vila-real
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real
[5]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/>
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero
- 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two
talks and one debate, in Vila-real
- 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real
- 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013.
- During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of
UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign:
Campaign:wikiArS<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS>,
creation of mechanisms to create
assignments<http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignme…>,
and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in
Commons, and Outreach.
--
+ Lucien
------------------------------------------------------------
¡Participa en Wikimedia España!: http://www.wikimedia.org.es/
Your help promoting the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women
is welcome. We are looking for candidates to become full-time interns in
a Wikimedia tech project between December and March. We are also looking
for mentors and projects. See the details below.
Wikimedia chapters and other organizations can also help promoting this
program in their areas. So far the only countries with a slightly decent
representation of candidates are India and USA.
Thank you!
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FOSS Outreach Program for Women: call for candidates, projects,
and mentors
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:02:37 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
PLEASE FORWARD TO WHOEVER MIGHT BE INTERESTED
Wikimedia will participate in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women -
Round 7. Interns of this program work full time in an open source
project during 4 months.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women
Candidates interested are encouraged to add themselves to the table at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7#Candidates
- even if you are still preparing your proposal.
We are actually running late (my fault). The application process is open
until November 11. The internship period goes from December 10 to March
10, 2014.
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to fund up to 8 interns. This is a
great opportunity for Wikimedia / MediaWiki related projects. Our
process is quite simple: define a project, find the mentors and go for it!
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projectshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors
The previous featured projects and confirmed mentors have been moved
respectively to the Raw and Bench sections. If you want to participate
in this OPW round move the entries back to the featured sections.
New projects and mentors are welcome too, of course!
If you have any questions please ask.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Dear Ansuman,
Thanks for flagging your concerns pertaining to the Access to Knowledge
(A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).
Most of these are in the pipe-line (or works in progress) and we will share
updates on each one of the queries you have posted, on the mailing lists
and/or on-wiki in the next 15-20 days. We will also update on our failures
in meeting some of the plans.
There are some delays with the taking off of some of our current year plans
[0]. However, I fail to understand where we have lied? All the A2K work is
periodically i.e. monthly, (except for once where we clubbed two months
newsletters as we were redesigning the newsletter based on feedback
received from some Indian Wikimedia community members0 published through
A2K Newsletter. The Newsletters were widely circulated on all Indian
Wikimedia mailing lists.
Please also see:
a) All CIS-A2K Newsletters here [1] under the section "The Access to
Knowledge Bulletin".
b) All the Events CIS-A2K has organized towards strengthening the Wikimedia
movement in India. We are currently updating all the events on this [2]
Meta page and soon you will see all the events conducted/supported by A2K
since September 2012.
c) Support to various requests placed by the Indian Wikimedia community. [3]
More updates to follow.
Vishnu
[[:m:User:Visdaviva]]
[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…
[1] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests &
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman <ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago.
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> -----------
>
> Me:
> And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process
> and selection process, and why?
>
> Vishnu:
> BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A
> BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA
> INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL
> SHARE THE LINK.
>
>
> Me:
> Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
> meta and share the same in the mailing list.
>
> Vishnu:
> YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
> RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
> TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
> FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know.
>
> What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year?
> If so you should have told the community. Don't you think so?
>
> Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the
> job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta
> officially
> . I don't think there is any even off-wiki
> . (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works)
>
>
> We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what?
>
>
> Few more questions..
>
> Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team<http://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231>
> ,
>
> Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231>
>
> Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231>
>
> If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the
> meta pages?
>
> Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How
> long are your two weeks?*
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_Ap…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231>
>
> What about "*Quarterly Community Survey*" mentioned here,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231>?
> Is there any plan to do this ever?
>
> And on this
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231>,
> which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the
> Foundation.
>
> I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on
> anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we
> don't get to see that! Why?
>
> * Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??*
>
> I request the foundation or whoever is responsible for this to make sure
> everything goes as it planned or discussed, and let the community know what
> is happening regularly on-wiki.
> Thanks.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ansuman
>
>
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Dear friends,
Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of Activities for the
months of July, August and September 2013. It is also avaliable, as all the
precedent, in Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3…>
Best regards,
--
Jorge A. Sierra
Presidente
Wikimedia España
http://www.wikimedia.org.es <http://www.wikimedia.org.es/> July
- 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation of
the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree.
- 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in
Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia
edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and
exercises<https://github.com/DrPantera/wikis4education/tree/master/uca-2012_07>
).
- 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS
project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UCAC2>in "X
Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference
about educational innovation in Madrid.
Proceedings<http://www.uem.es/myfiles/pageposts/jiu/jiu2013/pdf/x_jiiu_2013.pdf?#page=9…>(pages
917-924)
- 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap
in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about doing
activities next year.
- 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia
conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los
artículos más controvertidos de
Wikipedia<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-07-19/opus-dei-y-athletic-de-…>
- 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival *Músicos en la
naturaleza 2013*. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe.
[1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BAsicos_en_la_naturaleza_2…>
August
- 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in Wikimania
with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along with an
extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to keep all
chapters members informed.
- 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong
Kong<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photowikimeetup_in_Hong_Kong_duri…>by
"Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as
of
monuments for WLM13.
- 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong.
- 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in
Edu-III<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/wikiArS,_involving_art_…>(Wikimania)
- 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien
de ellas, pero siempre se
detecta"<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-08-11/hay-empresas-que-pagan-…>
- 16.08.2013:
Agreement<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Colaboraci%C3%B3n_con_la_UPM_sobr…>between
the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications ETSI
of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The first
agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited articles about
physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be expanded or improved
(wording or references). Discussion is going on to expand and formalize the
collaboration.
- 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain
wikimedia.esafter several years
- 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain
- Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in
Wikipedia <http://www.quo.es/tecnologia/errores-wikipedia>
September
- 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director,
and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain.
- 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España,
for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces
trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por
mí"<http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20130910/54380178639/entrevista-jorge-…>
- 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis
- 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013.
[2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a_2013_-_Sup…>
- 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between
Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League).
[3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_A…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e
interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices
de traducción con la Wikipedia*
[4]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…>
- 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia
Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real.
- 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía.
- 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de
Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students
of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in
Wikimedia.
- 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia
Conference in Vila-real
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real
[5]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/>
- 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero
- 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real
- 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two
talks and one debate, in Vila-real
- 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real
- 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013.
- During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of
UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign:
Campaign:wikiArS<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS>,
creation of mechanisms to create
assignments<http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignme…>,
and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in
Commons, and Outreach.
The Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige has now been published on our
wiki:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-09
*HIGHLIGHTS:*
- The Gothenburg Book fair, which featured a community driven project
taking pictures and making interviews conducted by 11 volunteers, as well
as presentations on Wikipedia in Education and Copyright.
- The final delivery of the brochure Free public information to each of
the Members of Parliament.
- The chapter and Wikipedia were mentioned five times in the
Governmental budget proposition for 2014.
- Our board member Ylva Pettersson was awarded second prize in The
Innovative Teacher Award for her and her students' work with creating
articles, videos, music and photos for Wikipedia in a project on local
history.
*GROWTH:*
- Editors involved in chapter activities: 26
- Media uploaded helped by chapter resources:
555<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cm…>
- Media viewed:
1,824,524<http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Media+created+by+techn…>
- Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 118
- Persons reached in presentations: >425
- Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars,
presentations, other): 18
- New chapter members: 5
- Facebook page likes: +20 (756 in total)
*Best regards,
Jan Ainali*
CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida>
+46 729 67 29 48
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Hi,
I would like to bring your attention to yet another discussion that's
currently taking place, namely the one about the new privacy policy, and
the related access to non-public information policy.
The privacy policy consultation is obviously important to all of us. but
I'm personally more interested in the draft access to non-public
information policy, which influences my daily work as an oversighter on
Commons, and also the not-so-regular work as an OTRS agent.
It seems that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning to require users with
access to non-public information to re-identify to them, this time with
the intention to retain copies of the submitted IDs, for as long as
those users have access to such information, and additional three years.
We already went through a similar discussion two and a half years ago,
when the WMF planned to make all OTRS agents re-identify to them by
sending a copy (or a scan) of their ID to a secure e-mail address (or by
using another option provided).
This time, the new requirements are going to concern /all/ users with
access to non-public information (such as OTRS agents, checkusers,
oversighters, and stewards), and their IDs are planned to be kept by the
Foundation, something which was never required before.
The discussion is taking place at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy
and I invite every interested person (with a special invitation to
people holding advanced user rights on any Wikimedia wiki) to take an
active part in it.
Thanks,
Tomasz