+1, very good news.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
p.s. As an aside, the role of an "ombudsman" has come up in two other
contexts (relating to actions of WMF personnel, rather than volunteer
functionaries) on the Transparency Gap page started a couple weeks ago:
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Philippe Beaudette <philippe(a)beaudette.me>
wrote:
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
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…
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_O…
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