[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. This session
is going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube with a
simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google Hangouts,
only a limited number of participation slots are available. Hence, do
please let us know if you would like to join in the Hangout. During the
session, we will be taking questions from viewers only on the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during the
session.
Our last online round-table session was held in September 21, 2016. You can
watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20161207T1300)
# Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PgVNSmohE and on IRC
#wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
Over the weekend, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly and
elections for the supervisory board as well as for the auditors.
The newly elected board consists of seven members:
* Tim Moritz Hector (Chair, re-elected)
* Sebastian Moleski (Treasurer, re-elected)
* Sabria David (re-elected)
* Kurt Jansson (re-elected)
* Lukas Mezger (re-elected)
* Harald Krichel (re-elected)
* Johanna Niesyto
The board has met for its first meeting on Sunday and elected Sabria David
and Kurt Jansson as Deputy Chair.
Johanna is new to the board, so please join me in welcoming her to the
board of WMDE. I would also like to thank our former board members Nikolas
Becker, Jürgen Friedrich and Catrin Schoneville wholeheartedly for the
great work and their commitment to Wikimedia Deutschland in the past years.
Lena Stammler and Daniel Baur (re-elected) are our two recently-elected
auditors, and I am extending my congratulations to them.
At the GA, the board furthermore presented the final report on the
WMDE-Governance-Review and how we handled the recommendations of the
report. Moreover, the members approved the annual plan for 2017.
The board will meet in January to discuss the goals for our term in the
next two years and I am very much looking forward to working together with
this team.
Best regards,
Tim Moritz Hector
--
Tim Moritz Hector
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.
Here are questions pertaining to policies. I am glad to have the
opportunity to step back and consider these over the long term:
1. When interpreting the neutrality mandate with regards to candidates, but
policy implies support of specific candidates or candidate-associated
action, how are we supposed to report that?
2. What is the standard for determining whether reasons to keep logs (i.e.,
ops, research, and possibly unknown other needs) when compared to the
possible implications of reader privacy requirements?
3. If staff suggests there is no time to research reasons to keep logs, let
alone comparison to the likely implications of reader privacy violations,
how are we supposed to report that?
4. What happened to the Chief Privacy Officer position?
5. Does ops need records of articles, or just lists of accessing
IP-associated accesses?
6. Is there a "hash/rotating salt/pepper" technique which will fulfill
research needs?
7. Does including the log proxy information with the IP address prevent
cryptographic hash guess reversals?
8. To what extent are ALA's Privacy standards pertinent:
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/privacyhttp://www.ala.org/advocacy/library-privacy-guidelines-
data-exchange-between-networked-devices-and-services
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacyconfidentialityhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006
I am not advocating eliminating IP address retention from editors' edits
(please see Brion Vibber's earlier proposal on this list this month.)
Best regards,
Jim