Thanks Lodewijk. We didn't mean "ideas" to limit contributions to full proposals or solutions. It could just be "Random thoughts from Lodewijk" - it's meant to be very open. You can also start a conversation about another idea by clicking on it to find its discussion, or take part in an ongoing one. I'll talk to my team to see if we can improve the language to make it clear all levels of participation are welcome. Best, On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote: -- Patrick Earley Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation pearley(a)wikimedia.org

We are hoping for broad participation, too, Lila! More input, and wide input, gives us a better chance at coming up with strong ideas that can improve our techniques and tools to address harassment across the board. In the four + years I've been at the Wikimedia Foundation, I've been involved in more than a few incidents involving harassment. Some of what I've seen has been utterly appalling. It is an issue that I believe can impact anyone, female or male, from any project. One of the driving factors in our team's desire to do this work is the recognition of the impact that the issue can have on people and the real difficulty in addressing it. As people are likely aware, we have recently wrapped the survey part <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Harassment_survey_2015> of our consultation. We will be compiling data from it over the next several weeks and releasing it publicly as soon as that work is complete to help give us a clearer idea of the scope of the issue on our projects. The current consultation phase <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment_consultation_2015> is a thought-gathering exercise. We're hoping to collect all kinds of ideas about the problem - what it is, how it can be addressed, what's working in other places, what's working for us, and what it isn't working for us. We don't imagine that this is a "one consultation solves the problem" situation. Our goal is to, with ongoing conversations, work with communities to start creating actionable resources to assist with harassment. My personal hope is that we will wind up with solutions that can be implemented at all levels - by the WMF, by the communities. (Probably too much to hope for immediate external change, like better legislation, but I can dream!) But the purpose of the conversation at this stage is to make sure that we hear many ideas and different ideas and that we consider them together. Because there may be and probably is somebody out there with an unexpected and insightful perspective or a unique idea. For that reason, we are calling to everyone we can to participate in this conversation. Our survey was sent to a subset of active editors on every project, and we invite participation from absolutely anyone in this consultation. Just for clarity with regards to what we're doing on child protection, I want to be sure people realize that, although child protection is one of our priorities, it’s not necessarily the focus of the harassment consultations and our wider harassment project. :) It’s something we are working on separately. Child protection has been part of our workflow since before I came aboard in 2011. What's new here is our ability to focus. We have been working to strengthen our policies and practices and have created a trust & safety team with the intent to strengthen our trust & safety practices.[1] While all of CA assists in trust & safety work and the trust & safety team assists in other areas of CA work, the team helps ensure our focus remains on this important work and also builds a frame for an increasingly robust trust & safety response in future. Best, Maggie [1] Trust & safety, for those unfamiliar with the term, includes child protection and general protection of the public and our communities from threats. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Lila Tretikov &lt;lila(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: -- Maggie Dennis Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.