This is excellent news, and has been years in the making.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Dariusz. As not all members of the Ombudsman
Commission subscribe
this list, I forwarded this to them :-)
2016-01-14 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>pl>:
hi,
I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and
discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope
of
our Ombudsman Commission, following the community
consensus from a while
back [1]
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Com…
.
The resolution was approved in November [2]
<
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_O…
and
has been just published.
As a former ombudsman, as well as an endorser of the proposal, I can say
that while this may not be a huge thing, it still is important and will,
hopefully, make our work easier :)
best,
dj
The Ombudsman Commission is currently the body which investigates
complaints about violations of the privacy and access to nonpublic
information policies established by Wikimedia Foundation and which apply
to
all Wikimedia wiki projects. The Ombudsman
Commission was appointed on 23
July 2006 by the Wikimedia Foundation Board with the generally narrow
scope
of investigating potential privacy violations
performed by users having
access to the CheckUser interface (namely CheckUsers and Stewards).
Over time, the Ombudsman Commission has received a growing number of
requests to investigate cases which are not clearly complaints about
individual CheckUser actions but may be potential or real violations of
the
privacy policy. Following the 2006 Board
Resolution's definition of the
scope, the Ombudsman Commission has consistently rejected these requests,
and the applicants remain unsatisfied as there is no other body in the
Wikimedia movement tasked to resolve these problems. Therefore, the
members
of Ombudsman Commission, with help of the WMF
legal team, asked the WMF
Board to redefine the scope of the Ombudsman Commission.
The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has accepted the community's
consensus and has authorized an expansion of the Ombudsman Commission's
scope to include two more tasks:
To review, upon request, local project CheckUser and Oversight policies
to
ensure that they do not violate the respective
global policies.
To investigate, upon request, potential violations of the appropriate
global policies by local CheckUsers and Oversighters.
Investigation of potential violations of local policies which are not
violations of the global polices remain the responsibility of the local
project and not within the scope of the Ombudsman Commission at this
time.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Com…
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_O…
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