[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest: We are looking for Jury

2020-05-26 Thread Olushola Olaniyan 
Dear friends,

Greetings,

We are excited to inform you that WikiGap Nigeria Online contest ends today
27 May 2020, 23:59 (WAT).

Submissions were received in the following languages ( in no particular
order) :
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2.Hausa,
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5. Deutsch
6. French
7. Italiano
8. Tieng Viet
9. Suomi
10. Davvisámegiella
11.Bahasa Indonesia,
12. Nederlands
13. Malayalam
14. Aftabuzzaman,
 15. Punjabi

Due to the influx of many international languages, the organizing team has
decided to seek the help of the global community members especially editors
speaking and writing any of the languages to serve on the panel of Jury. We
hope volunteers can spend between 3-4hrs over one week on the task.

If you are interested in joining the team of Jury, kindly send your User
name to i...@wikimedia.org.ng on or before 30 May 2020.


NB: Contest participants are not expected to apply as a member of Jury.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Trust and safety on Wikimedia projects

2020-05-26 Thread Yaroslav Blanter 
We of course do not have as many problematic uploads as FB does (and to be
honest having a personal experience I am not really impressed with the
quality of their moderators), but we still get several hundreds of obvious
copyright violations per day uploaded to Commons, and several hundreds junk
articles started and not passed the new page patrol barrier in the English
Wikipedia (deleted or draftified forever). I am sure we have a similar
situation in other big projects. All these things are cleaned up by a very
few people who are on top of the time lost for these tasks also subject to
constant abuse. Note that I am not saying that WMF must pay admins
compensation (still stronger, I will likely leave WMF projects if it starts
doing so), but the problem of emotional drain of those who are dealing with
this shit on a daily basis is real. I am afraid though it has no solution,
because we know that the obvious solution - get more people - does not work.

I am not even talking about off-wiki harassment - which in my experience is
more rare but much stronger because you do not know how real are the
threats. Last time I had to report to the police. This one has no solution
either.

Best
Yaroslav

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:08 PM Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> With regard to the issue Facebook is having, if that were to become an
> issue on Wikimedia projects something likely would have happened already.
> The majority of disturbing content is handled by volunteers, and that which
> T handles is often sent to them by volunteers.
>
> Also, given the relatively complicated upload process (compared to
> Facebook), we simply don’t get nearly as many problematic uploads as they
> do.
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:19 Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> > Is  anyone not already aware of the recent issue facing Facebook over
> > compensation for moderators
> > https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/facebook-moderators-ptsd-settlement/
> >  To
> > me there appears to be potential risk that the Board and the WMF must
> > consider in relation to any role that involves any form of moderation;
> >
> >1. is there a problem with setting standards against harassment, toxic
> >behavior, and incivility that is at a minimum equal, understandable,
> and
> >respected on all projects, committees, affiliates, events and
> everything
> >else we do
> >2. is there concern about being asked to contribute at these standards
> >3. is the concern how much the WMF needs to be part of the process, or
> >4. how long it should be allowed to go unaddressed before its
> escalated.
> >
> > I go back way to far back I remember a group targeted stalking of female
> > admins,  I was part of a group of admins that were willing to take action
> > against this group. We lost some very good people during that,
>  Harassment
> > has been an on going issue for all my 15 years, we had some the worst
> > people become tool holders, others have just created 1,000's of socks.
> > There are still people contributing today that are trolls, and harassers
> > contributing today, we know that our failures to deal with it effectively
> > and quickly are legendary.   What ever we do we need to keep improving
> our
> > response and our ability to respond across projects, the alternative is
> > going to be that the Board & WMF are going to have to step in and take
> > responsibility out of the communities hands.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:58, Philip Kopetzky  >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What Martin mentions should be covered in the recommendations for the
> > 2030
> > > strategy, the measures mentioned here being "fast-tracked" to provide a
> > > starting point for improving Community Health.
> > > Conflict resolution needs to happen on the lowest possible level so
> that
> > we
> > > don't run into situations we've encountered in the past. Of course it's
> > > difficult for one aspect to work without the other, so the overall goal
> > > won't be achieved until every part is in place.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 17:46, Samuel Klein  wrote:
> > >
> > > > > A former steward fellow and I
> > > > > discussed this topic at the Safety Space at Wikimania. Due to the
> > > nature
> > > > of
> > > > > the space, the discussion have not been documented but you can find
> > the
> > > > > presentation with backgrounds of the situation and open questions
> on
> > > > > Commons
> > > > > <
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_%E2%80%93_Do_we_need_a_global_dispute_resolution_committee%3F.pdf
> > > > > >.
> > > > > Maybe it can give some ideas how to proceed with this.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes -- I was just thinking of your discussions of this while reading
> > the
> > > > thread. I hope these steward reflections are considered as people
> move
> > > > forward.
> > > >
> > > > The case of disputes that embroil an entire community and their
> admins
> > > > should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Trust and safety on Wikimedia projects

2020-05-26 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l 
With regard to the issue Facebook is having, if that were to become an
issue on Wikimedia projects something likely would have happened already.
The majority of disturbing content is handled by volunteers, and that which
T handles is often sent to them by volunteers.

Also, given the relatively complicated upload process (compared to
Facebook), we simply don’t get nearly as many problematic uploads as they
do.

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:19 Gnangarra  wrote:

> Is  anyone not already aware of the recent issue facing Facebook over
> compensation for moderators
> https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/facebook-moderators-ptsd-settlement/
>  To
> me there appears to be potential risk that the Board and the WMF must
> consider in relation to any role that involves any form of moderation;
>
>1. is there a problem with setting standards against harassment, toxic
>behavior, and incivility that is at a minimum equal, understandable, and
>respected on all projects, committees, affiliates, events and everything
>else we do
>2. is there concern about being asked to contribute at these standards
>3. is the concern how much the WMF needs to be part of the process, or
>4. how long it should be allowed to go unaddressed before its escalated.
>
> I go back way to far back I remember a group targeted stalking of female
> admins,  I was part of a group of admins that were willing to take action
> against this group. We lost some very good people during that,   Harassment
> has been an on going issue for all my 15 years, we had some the worst
> people become tool holders, others have just created 1,000's of socks.
> There are still people contributing today that are trolls, and harassers
> contributing today, we know that our failures to deal with it effectively
> and quickly are legendary.   What ever we do we need to keep improving our
> response and our ability to respond across projects, the alternative is
> going to be that the Board & WMF are going to have to step in and take
> responsibility out of the communities hands.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:58, Philip Kopetzky 
> wrote:
>
> > What Martin mentions should be covered in the recommendations for the
> 2030
> > strategy, the measures mentioned here being "fast-tracked" to provide a
> > starting point for improving Community Health.
> > Conflict resolution needs to happen on the lowest possible level so that
> we
> > don't run into situations we've encountered in the past. Of course it's
> > difficult for one aspect to work without the other, so the overall goal
> > won't be achieved until every part is in place.
> >
> > On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 17:46, Samuel Klein  wrote:
> >
> > > > A former steward fellow and I
> > > > discussed this topic at the Safety Space at Wikimania. Due to the
> > nature
> > > of
> > > > the space, the discussion have not been documented but you can find
> the
> > > > presentation with backgrounds of the situation and open questions on
> > > > Commons
> > > > <
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_%E2%80%93_Do_we_need_a_global_dispute_resolution_committee%3F.pdf
> > > > >.
> > > > Maybe it can give some ideas how to proceed with this.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes -- I was just thinking of your discussions of this while reading
> the
> > > thread. I hope these steward reflections are considered as people move
> > > forward.
> > >
> > > The case of disputes that embroil an entire community and their admins
> > > should (also) specifically be addressed.
> > > S
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Etherpad upgrade and a new skin

2020-05-26 Thread Chinmayi Mishra 

Thank you Alexandros.. This looks so good with new GUI. 
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 3:58:55 PM UTC+5:30, Alexandros Kosiaris wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> I normally don't send out emails like this when we upgrade etherpad, 
> but 1.8.4 (which we just upgraded to), has brought in a UI change (one 
> that was introduced in 1.8.3) which, in my opinion, warrants a heads 
> up so that people aren't caught off guard. Etherpad-lite now has had a 
> new skin and that's what you will experience while using it. There's 
> also a number of other changes, you can have a quick look at 
> https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md if 
> you are interested. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> -- 
> Alexandros Kosiaris 
> Principal Site Reliability Engineer 
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Trust and safety on Wikimedia projects

2020-05-26 Thread Gnangarra 
Is  anyone not already aware of the recent issue facing Facebook over
compensation for moderators
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/facebook-moderators-ptsd-settlement/   To
me there appears to be potential risk that the Board and the WMF must
consider in relation to any role that involves any form of moderation;

   1. is there a problem with setting standards against harassment, toxic
   behavior, and incivility that is at a minimum equal, understandable, and
   respected on all projects, committees, affiliates, events and everything
   else we do
   2. is there concern about being asked to contribute at these standards
   3. is the concern how much the WMF needs to be part of the process, or
   4. how long it should be allowed to go unaddressed before its escalated.

I go back way to far back I remember a group targeted stalking of female
admins,  I was part of a group of admins that were willing to take action
against this group. We lost some very good people during that,   Harassment
has been an on going issue for all my 15 years, we had some the worst
people become tool holders, others have just created 1,000's of socks.
There are still people contributing today that are trolls, and harassers
contributing today, we know that our failures to deal with it effectively
and quickly are legendary.   What ever we do we need to keep improving our
response and our ability to respond across projects, the alternative is
going to be that the Board & WMF are going to have to step in and take
responsibility out of the communities hands.



On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 18:58, Philip Kopetzky 
wrote:

> What Martin mentions should be covered in the recommendations for the 2030
> strategy, the measures mentioned here being "fast-tracked" to provide a
> starting point for improving Community Health.
> Conflict resolution needs to happen on the lowest possible level so that we
> don't run into situations we've encountered in the past. Of course it's
> difficult for one aspect to work without the other, so the overall goal
> won't be achieved until every part is in place.
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 17:46, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
> > > A former steward fellow and I
> > > discussed this topic at the Safety Space at Wikimania. Due to the
> nature
> > of
> > > the space, the discussion have not been documented but you can find the
> > > presentation with backgrounds of the situation and open questions on
> > > Commons
> > > <
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_%E2%80%93_Do_we_need_a_global_dispute_resolution_committee%3F.pdf
> > > >.
> > > Maybe it can give some ideas how to proceed with this.
> > >
> >
> > Yes -- I was just thinking of your discussions of this while reading the
> > thread. I hope these steward reflections are considered as people move
> > forward.
> >
> > The case of disputes that embroil an entire community and their admins
> > should (also) specifically be addressed.
> > S
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Trust and safety on Wikimedia projects

2020-05-26 Thread Philip Kopetzky 
What Martin mentions should be covered in the recommendations for the 2030
strategy, the measures mentioned here being "fast-tracked" to provide a
starting point for improving Community Health.
Conflict resolution needs to happen on the lowest possible level so that we
don't run into situations we've encountered in the past. Of course it's
difficult for one aspect to work without the other, so the overall goal
won't be achieved until every part is in place.

On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 17:46, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> > A former steward fellow and I
> > discussed this topic at the Safety Space at Wikimania. Due to the nature
> of
> > the space, the discussion have not been documented but you can find the
> > presentation with backgrounds of the situation and open questions on
> > Commons
> > <
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_%E2%80%93_Do_we_need_a_global_dispute_resolution_committee%3F.pdf
> > >.
> > Maybe it can give some ideas how to proceed with this.
> >
>
> Yes -- I was just thinking of your discussions of this while reading the
> thread. I hope these steward reflections are considered as people move
> forward.
>
> The case of disputes that embroil an entire community and their admins
> should (also) specifically be addressed.
> S
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