Hello, everyone.
I'm writing with information about the Ombudsman Commission (OC), the small
group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the
privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser and
Oversight tools, on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. I
apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
The application period for new commissioners for 2020 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
As with last year, this year’s OC will consist of eight members, with a
two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission and also, if
necessary, fill in in the event that the OC is unable to act due to
incapacity or recusal.
I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2020 OC:
Ajraddatz <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ajraddatz>
Ajraddatz has been an active user on Wikimedia since 2010, and has served
in various roles of community trust in that time, including as a Wikidata
Oversighter since 2013, a steward since 2014, and a Meta CheckUser since
2015.
Emufarmers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Emufarmers>
Emufarmers has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2005. He is a
Metapedian who primarily edits the English Wikipedia; he is also a
bureaucrat and sysop on MediaWiki.org, and has provided software support to
many third-party, non-Wikimedia wikis over the years. He has served as an
OTRS administrator since 2015. He has served on the Ombuds Commission since
2019.
DeltaQuad <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DeltaQuad>
Amanda has been editing Wikipedia since 2009, when she made her first edits
to English Wikipedia. She has served many roles in the past including being
a sysop, holding advanced permissions and serving on an Arbitration
Committee for 4 years. Her work now focuses on the Ombudsmen Commission and
the re-development of a Global Unblock Ticket Request System (UTRS).
Kelapstick <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kelapstick>
Kelapstick has been a Wikimedian since 2006. He is primarily active on
English Wikipedia, where he is an Admin and former Oversighter and was an
Arbitrator between 2016 and 2018.
Taketa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Taketa>
Taketa has been a Wikimedian since 2008 and has held a number of positions
in his time here, including Administrator and Bureaucrat on the Dutch
Wikipedia, Arbitrator on Dutch Wikipedia, Administrator on Wikidata,
Steward, and member of the Ombuds Commission. He has created about 7000 new
articles in several language Wikipedias. He currently serves on the board
of Wikimedia Belgium.
Teles <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles>
Lucas became a Wikipedian in 2007 and started to engage with CheckUser
rights in 2009, when he became a local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He
held both Oversight and Checkuser rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 2017,
when his term with the rights expired. He is currently an administrator on
Commons and Ptwiki. His traditional main focus has been on anti-vandalism
work. In 2012, the global community elected him as a steward, a position he
has held since. He served on the Ombuds Commission since 2018.
Uzoma Ozurumba <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Uzoma_Ozurumba>
Uzoma Ozurumba has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2017. She
contributes primarily to Meta, Commons, and the Igbo Wiktionary, of which
she is a founder. She is a co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group
and serves as a Strategy Liaison for that group.
Wikilover90 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wikilover90>Rupika has
been editing Wikimedia projects since 2014. A free knowledge advocate, she
edits primarily on Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and is administrator on
Punjabi Wikisource. She organizes events such as Wiki Loves Folklore
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore> and Wiki
Loves Women
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women_South_Asia_2020>. She has
been supporting in activating the Open Movement in North India via various
Open GLAM initiatives such as Heritage GLAM
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heritage_GLAM>. She has served on the
Ombuds Commission since 2019. ---------------
The 2020 OC’s advisors are:
Elmacenderesi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elmacenderesi>
Elmacenderesi has been working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily
on the Turkish Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat
since 2008 and an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia
OTRS and serves as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic
institutions and GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library. He has served on the
Ombuds Commission since 2018.
Galahad <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Galahad>
Carlos, currently editing as user:Galahad, has been contributing to
Wikimedia Projects since 2009. He is a member of Wikimedia Venezuela and
Wikimedistas de Perú User Group. He primarily contributes to
Spanish-language projects including Spanish Wikipedia and Spanish
Wikivoyage. He has been an administrator and bureaucrat of Spanish
Wikivoyage since 2013. He has served on the Ombuds Commission since 2019.
Their willingness to remain, to bring their familiarity with processes and
their experience to the new arrivals, is greatly appreciated!
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Please join me in thanking the following volunteers who are leaving OC, who
have given substantially of their time to serve the commission:
Dyolf77 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dyolf77>
Habib started editing in 2010 and has been heavily engaged in community
affairs, both onwiki and as part of user groups, for years. A native of
Tunisia, he has been a free-culture advocate on a wide range of issues in
and beyond the movement. Onwiki, you can mainly find him helping out on
Commons, where he is a sysop, as well as the Arabic and French language
editions of Wikipedia. He has served on the Ombuds Commission since 2018.
EVinente <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EVinente>
Edilson has been contributing to Wikimedia projects since 2013. He is
primarily active on the Portuguese Wikipedia, where he is a checkuser,
oversighter, and administrator. He has served on the Ombuds Commission
since 2019.
Jamie Tubers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>
Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers, joined the English language Wikipedia
community in 2011 and has over the years expanded his activities into a
wide range of movement activities including co-founding the Wikimedia user
group Nigeria and helping to organize events like Wiki Loves Africa and
Wiki Loves Women. He is dedicated to correcting our content gaps and biases
related to Africa and raising awareness of the projects on the continent.
He has served on the Ombuds Commission since 2018.
Krd <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krd>
Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and
also serves at the Volunteer Response Team as an agent and OTRS admin, and
was a member of the German Wikipedia Arbitration Committee. He has served
on the Ombuds Commission since 2017.
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I'd also like to say a big thank you to those returning and those coming
aboard for the first time, as well as to all those applied. Again, it was
an extremely able group of volunteers, and while this mix of users may best
serve the need for this year, I hope that those who applied will consider
applying again for future commissions.
Regards,
Karen
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Karen Brown
Trust & Safety Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
kbrown(a)wikimedia.org
Hello colleagues,
I didn't think about this, but apparently Wikimedia-l removes HTML
formatting from emails. For a long time, probably years, emails that I
thought were being forwarded from Wikimedia-l to your email accounts
with HTML formatting were not. This includes the WMYHTW emails. I
apologize for this. I hope that this explains why you may have
received some emails that were difficult to read. I am discussing with
Clovermoss how we can do formatting for WMYHTW emails in plain text
from now on.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hi all!
It is my pleasure to inform you on behalf of the Wikimedia Community of
Republic of Srpska that our Annual report for the year 2019 is completed.
You can find it at the following link:
* Wikimedia Community of the Republic of Srpska:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Reports/Wikimedians_o…>Annual
Report 2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Reports/Wikimedians_o…>
.
If you have any questions or suggestions - we are at your disposal.
Best regards from Republic of Srpska!
Bojana Podgorica
Wikimedia Community
of Republika Srpska
*„**Замислите свијет у коме **свака особа на планети има **слободан приступ
цјелокупном људском знању.* *То је *
*оно на чему ми радимо.“*
Hi everyone,
Community conversations are underway, and I’d like to thank everyone
who has taken the time to read through the recommendations and provide
input. Here are some further updates and insights:
== Share your feedback about the recommendations via email ==
We have heard many requests to be able to share feedback in a
non-public forum, and you can now share your feedback with us via
strategy2030(a)wikimedia.org.
This account is monitored by members of my team [1] and your feedback
will be considered in the summary report.
== Ask us anything at the movement strategy office hours ==
We’ve received lots of questions about how community input has been
incorporated, who produced this work, and more, and set up office
hours this week. Join in at the following times to ask your questions
and discuss strategy:
* Thursday, January 30 from 8:00 UTC (one hour):
https://meet.google.com/_meet/bmo-hwbe-cqr
* Thursday, January 30 from 18:00 UTC (one hour):
https://meet.google.com/ycp-qtwg-eus
In the meantime, here are a few quick notes of clarification for some
common questions:
=== How has community input been incorporated? ===
>From March to September 2019, community input was documented and
analyzed by a team of community strategy liaisons [2]. This was
presented in a series of summary reports [3] and shared with working
groups, who began working community feedback into their draft
recommendations following Wikimania in August.
To help create this current set of recommendations, community strategy
liaisons again analyzed community feedback and compiled it according
to key themes. Between October 2019 and January 2020, they worked very
closely with the writers to help make sense of the feedback and assist
them in integrating applicable community input.
To highlight all the ways that community feedback was utilized, there
are footnotes and community input summaries (linked in the left-hand
navigation menu) on each recommendation page. All these reports and
blog posts can be found on the reports page [4].
=== Who produced this work? ===
A team of 15 Wikimedians [5] drafted this work. This writing group was
made up of former thematic area working group members from different
backgrounds and from all parts of our movement: online contributors,
volunteers, affiliate representatives, and WMF staff. They have
offered some insight into their work and why they took this on in
their Writer’s Reflections [6].
Check the FAQs page [7] for more, and suggest what questions we should add.
== Additional formats for reviewing the recommendations ==
If you would prefer to listen to, rather than read, the
recommendations, we’ve created audio files in English for each section
of the content [8].
Andrew Lih (User:Fuzheado) has created a one-page summary of the
recommendations that gives a good, compact overview of each
recommendation. An updated version has been posted in Arabic [9],
English [10], and Hindi [11] and further translations will be uploaded
this week as they become available. I’d like to thank Andrew for this,
and am looking forward to seeing more of these proactive initiatives
from across the movement.
Community conversations will run for another four weeks, and I
encourage you to continue contributing your input about the
recommendations [12]. We are especially looking for constructive
feedback on how to improve the document or where more context is
needed.
Thanks for taking part and following along with what’s going on with
movement strategy!
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Reports
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Synthes…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequen…
[8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_2030_recommendations_…
[9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%91%D8%B5_%D8%…
[10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One-page_overview_of_the_first_vers…
[11] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B…
[12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
--
Nicole Ebber
Leiterin Internationale Beziehungen
Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Happy New Year! The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend
our next Open Meeting via Zoom on *Tuesday, January 28, from 18:00 UTC to
19:30 UTC*.
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers. This
month, we're thrilled to have featured speakers from Israel and Ghana join
us to speak about Wikidata in education and outside-the-classroom social
impact from Wikimedia projects.
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov* is one of the leading innovators in the Wikimedia
& Education movement globally. In addition to her work as a researcher and
free knowledge advocate, Shani has taught groundbreaking courses on
Wikipedia and Wikidata, and she'll be presenting in this meeting on her
Wikidata work. A founding board member of the Wikipedia & Education User
Group, Shani resigned to take on even greater responsibility as a Wikimedia
Foundation Trustee. We're particularly excited to welcome her back as a
guest speaker!
*Andrews Lartey*, Project Manager for Growing Open and Eco-friendly Skills
for the Youth (GOES), will speak about how Wikimedia Projects can be used
outside the classroom to create social impact (Industry 4.0 skills
acquisition, circular economy and zero hunger). Andrews Lartey will present
on how GOES, through community school farms is creating social impact in
Ghana, the global effect and how various institutions and individuals can
support the project.
The meeting will be hosted via this link on January 28:
https://zoom.us/j/580872511
Hi all!
As many of you probably know, WikiGap
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap> is organized annually around
International Women's Day 8 March. It is an initiative aiming to close the
gender gap in Wikipedia, and is organized as a cooperation between
Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish
embassies and Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers around the world. It was
first organized in March 2018 and now we would like to do it for the third
time! We are planning to organize several Wikipedia edit-a-thons around 8
March 2020. The purpose of the edit-a-thons is to create more articles
about women, as a way of building a more gender-equal Internet and a more
gender-equal world (a manual can be found here
<http://www.swemfa.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/manual-2019.pdf>).
At this point, we have started the preparations for WikiGap 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap>! I have reached out individually
to previous organizers, but if there are affiliates or volunteers who
haven't taken part in the initiative before but would like to – you still
have the chance! Feel free to reach out to me for any questions.
If there are previous organizers who I have missed to contact, feel free to
reach out then too! If you have already decided upon a date and started the
preparations, please fill in the Events
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2020/Events> list at Meta. In that
way, we know if you are planning an event and can reach out to you with
more information.
WikiGap Challenge and Photo Exhibition
As last year, we will also initiate a WikiGap Challenge, encouraging
article creation on women throughout the Spring. Last year, the winner Andriy
Hrytsenko
<https://si.se/en/wikigap-has-brought-us-27-000-articles-closer-to-a-gender-…>
, from Ukrainian Wikipedia, got a Wikimania scholarship as a reward. The
challenge will be online and coordinated on Meta, as last year
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge>.
For the first time this year, we are aiming to produce a photo exhibition,
in digital and physical form, to highlight several of the great articles
that have been written. Reach out to us if you have interest in hosting it!
Our preliminary idea is to produce it with A4 photos to print and text in
two languages, the original and English, besides.
Best,
*Eric Luth*
Project Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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