Wow! It's a team of highly experienced and committed Wikimedians.
Congratulations!!
On Thursday, February 1, 2018, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was thinking the same thing. :)
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe(a)beaudette.me
wrote:
> Great group! This is such an important role, it's good to see serious
> people filling it.
> On Jan 31, 2018 3:47 PM, "Karen
Brown" <kbrown(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Apologies for the broken
formatting in my original message! I forgot
how
> Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see
below for (hopefully) a
more
> > legible version of the announcement:
> > -----------
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > I am happy to announce the
new and returning members of the 2018
> 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[1] tools, on
any Wikimedia project for
the
> > Board of Trustees.
>
> > [1]
> >
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> > the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
>
> > I apologize for the length
of the announcement. :)
>
> > The application period for
new commissioners for 2018 recently closed.
> The
> > Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> > insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. This year
we
> > received applications representing the widest variety of languages,
> > projects, and regions I’ve seen since I started working with the
> committee
> > three years ago.
>
> > Given the increasing
caseload OC has been handing year over year, we
have
> decided to take advantage of the opportunity
the diverse candidate pool
> afforded us and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will
> consist of eight, rather than seven, members, with a two-member
advisory
> > team who will guide the new commission.
>
> > I am pleased to announce
the composition of the 2018 OC. First, the
*new
> > members* are:
>
> > *Billinghurst*
> > Billinghurst (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst>) is
a
> long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served
as a steward from 2012 to
2016
> and still serves as a global sysop. He
considers his home wiki to be
the
> English Wikisource where he's performed
over 260,000 edits and focuses
on
> > transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC.
> In
> > addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he
> > also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia
> racking
> > up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits
> > when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and
> > knowledge to give.
>
> > *Jamie Tubers*
> > Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers (<
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>)t;), 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.
>
> > *Dyolf77*
> > Habib (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dyolf77>) 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.
>
> > *Saileshpat*
> > Saileshpat (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Saileshpat>) started
> > editing Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia
> > community. He has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread
> > awareness in his region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of
> > WikiConference India 2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content
relicensing
> process, where the Government of Odisha
decided to release content
under
> > Creative Commons licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia
> Wikipedia
> > and Commons.
>
> > *Elmacenderesi*
> > Elmacenderesi (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User: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.
>
> > *Teles*
> > Lucas (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles>) 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. 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.
>
> > In addition, experienced OC
members Lankiveil and Góngora will be
> > *returning
> > as members of the Ombuds Commission*:
>
> > *Lankiveil*
> > Lankiveil (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lankiveil>) is a
> > long-term
> > user, admin, and oversighter on the English Wikipedia, having made his
> > first edits in 2004. He served on the Ombuds Commission in 2017, and is
> > also an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes edits at Irish Wikipedia, and
> > Wikidata. He is a native speaker of Australian English and is a member
of
> > Wikimedia Australia.
>
> > *Góngora*
> > Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff, (<
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G%C3%B3ngora>) primarily edits
> > Spanish
> > Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has
been
an
> administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and
an
> administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia from
2010 until 2017, where he
is
> also a CheckUser. He was a member of the
Spanish Arbitration Committee
in
> 2008, before it was dismantled. He was a
board member of Wikimedia
España
> in 2011. He is currently a member of both
Wikimedia España and
Wikimedia
> > Norge.
>
> > And the following
experienced OC members will be returning as *advisors
> to
> > the commission* (this advisory role provides expertise when needed, but
> > does not participate in all discussions):
>
> > *Pajz*
> > Pajz (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pajz>) has edited the
> Wikimedia
> > projects since 2005. He was a Wikipedia administrator between 2007 to
> 2016
> > and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team. He served as one of the
> > OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being first appointed to
> the
> > Ombudsman Commission in 2016.
>
> > *Krd*
> > Krd (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User: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 prior member of
> German
> > Wikipedia Arbitration Committee for more than three years. He joined
the
> OC
> > in 2017.
>
> > And finally, please join me
in *thanking the following outgoing
> > volunteers*,
> > who have given substantially of their time to serve the commission:
>
> > *Vogone*
> > Vogone (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vogone>) has contributed
> to
> > Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While they began their involvement
> on
> > the German Wikipedia, they quickly branched out to Wikibooks,
Wikisource,
Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the first bureaucrat on the
Wikidata
> project. Vogone has worked heavily assisting our smaller projects as a
> global rollbacker, global sysop, and member of the Small Wiki
Monitoring
Team.
They have experience in translation administration, both on Meta
and
translatewiki.net. Vogone has shown a keen
interest in the technical
side
> of user privacy, including contributing to MediaWiki software around
edit
> > suppression. Vogone joined OC in 2017.
>
> > *Richwales*
> > Richwales (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Richwales>) has been
an
> active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
administrator, oversighter, and
> sockpuppet investigation clerk on the English Wikipedia. Richwales also
> served on the now-defunct Audit subcommittee, which served a similar
role
> > to the Ombudsman Commission. Rich joined the OC in 2017.
>
> > *Alan*
> > Alan (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alan>) has been a
registered
> Wikimedian for more than three years, but an
anonymous editor since
2006,
> working primarily across Spanish language
projects. He is a global
sysop
> > and global rollbacker, an administrator on Commons, as well as having
> been
> > an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past he has served as an
> > administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage. He joined the OC in
> > 2016.
>
> > *Rubin16*
> > Rubin16 (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rubin16>) primarily
edits
> the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
bureaucrat and administrator. He
is
> formerly a member of their Arbitration
Committee. He is an
administrator
on
> Wikimedia Commons and is a Central Notice and translation admin on
Meta.
> (He is also a translation admin on Commons.)
He is a member of
Wikimedia
> > Russia. He joined the OC in 2015.
>
> > *Polimerek*
> > Polimerek (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek>) primarily
> > edits Polish Wikipedia (where he is an admin and former arbitrator),
> Polish
> > Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. He also serves the Wikimedia movement
as
> the president of Wikimedia Poland and on the
Grant Advisory Committee.
He
> > is a former CheckUser. Polimerek joined the OC in 2014.
>
> > ---
>
> > I'd also like to offer
a huge “thank you” to those returning and those
> > coming aboard for the first time, as well as to all those applied. The
> > applications we received this year showed us an extremely able group of
> > volunteers across a diverse array of languages and projects, and while
> this
> > appointed mix of users may best serve the need for this year, I hope
that
> those who applied and were not appointed
will consider applying again
in
> > future years.
>
> > Yours,
> > Karen Brown
>
>
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Karen Brown
<kbrown(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > > *Hello all,*
> >
> > [...]
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