[Wikimedia-l] Inviting community nominations for the Knowledge Equity Fund’s next round

[Nadee Gunasena]

Hi all,

Today, we are opening nominations

for the next round of grants from the Knowledge Equity Fund.

The Knowledge Equity Fund was launched by the Wikimedia Foundation two
years ago as a pilot program to advance knowledge equity, one of the two
pillars of the movement strategy, through a focus on racial inequities in
free knowledge.

Since our launch, the Knowledge Equity Fund has gone through several
iterations. Over the past several months, the Knowledge Equity Fund
Committee has solicited feedback from Wikimedia communities on our approach
to supporting knowledge equity. We hosted an open community call

on October 6 to share more about our approach and discuss ideas for future
knowledge equity grants. Through this conversation and onwiki comments, we
heard consistent feedback

about the need to connect grantees and their work more closely with the
Wikimedia projects. These suggestions have focused on increased
communication and visibility into the work of the Knowledge Equity Fund and
grantees; developing stronger connections between grantees and movement
groups in order to drive direct impact to the Wikimedia projects, which
will in turn benefit our larger mission of free knowledge; and clarifying
the impact of Knowledge Equity Fund grantees.

These are important suggestions that we as a Committee are taking on as we
launch the next round. We’ve just shared a Diff post

with details on the changes that we’re making moving forward, including a
new Connected Grants pilot that will be available to movement groups to
support existing partnerships with external organizations.

We will also be hosting two community calls to answer questions and hear
suggestions for nominations for Round 3:

   -

   January 22, 11 am UTC
   -

   January 26, 3 pm UTC


If you are interested in attending these calls, please email
equityf...@wikimedia.org and we will share information to join. We welcome
your nominations for organizations for Round 3! Nominations will be open
through the end of February.


-- 
*Nadee Gunasena*
Chief of Staff
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing Publication of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Child Rights Impact Assessment

[Shaba 50]

Hi Ricky,

Thank you for sharing this important information with the community. I'm
particularly interested in the recommendations that the Foundation and the
volunteer community could implement to mitigate the risks that children
face when accessing and participating in Wikimedia projects.

I think it's important that we do everything we can to make Wikimedia a
safe space for children, and I'm glad that the Foundation is taking this
issue seriously.

I'm also interested in hearing from other members of the community about
their thoughts on the risks and recommendations from the report.

I think it's important that we have a dialogue about this topic so that we
can come up with the best possible solutions.

I'm looking forward to the community conversation hours on Friday. I hope to
see you there!

Best Regards,
Aliyu Shaba.


On Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 6:03 PM Ricky Gaines  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am pleased to announce the
> publication of our first child rights impact assessment
> 
> (CRIA). This report forms an important part of the Foundation’s long-term
> efforts to meet the commitments articulated in our Human Rights Policy
> . The
> assessment builds upon our 2020 organizational Human Rights Impact
> Assessment
> 
> (HRIA), which identified risks to children’s rights as one of five
> categories of significant human rights risks facing the Foundation and
> Wikimedia communities. The HRIA recommended that the Foundation undertake a
> targeted assessment to better understand this category of risks.
>
> What is in the report?
>
> Publishing this CRIA represents a significant step forward in the
> Foundation’s human rights endeavors. The CRIA was prepared by Article One
> , a strategy consultancy with expertise
> in human rights. In it, Article One identifies and analyzes the impacts,
> risks, and opportunities posed to children that access and participate in
> Wikimedia projects. It proposes recommendations that the Foundation and
> Wikimedia’s volunteer community could implement to mitigate those risks, so
> that children can fully benefit from participating in our projects
>
> Of the recommendations, the Foundation is positioned to act upon a number
> of them, while others provide an opportunity for collaboration between the
> Foundation and the volunteer community to address, and others the volunteer
> community is better positioned to lead. We hope these recommendations will
> give us all a basis for dialogue and collaboration around making Wikimedia
> a safer space for children.
>
> Making sense of the findings
>
> To help you digest this report, we’ve prepared a number of resources for
> you, including:
>
>-
>
>A Diff blog pos
>
> t
>summarizing the findings of the CRIA and what it means for the movement;
>-
>
>A Meta page
>
> 
>to serve as the “home” for the report and to provide more background
>information on the report, including its objectives, the timeline in which
>it was completed, the methodology that was employed to develop the report,
>and actions the Foundation has taken since first receiving the report;
>-
>
>The full report
>
> ,
>which contains a foreword from the Foundation’s General Counsel, an
>executive summary, a risk analysis, and recommendations. The report is
>available in English, French and Spanish.
>
>
> Working together to protect child safety on Wikimedia projects
>
> We want to hear from you on this topic: What questions do you have? What
> are your thoughts on the risks and recommendations from the report? What is
> your community already doing, or what would you like to do, to ensure the
> safety of children on Wikimedia projects? How can we collaborate to make
> progress? Leave a message on the report’s Talk page
> 
> or register and join us at either of the two community conversation hours
> scheduled for the following times:
>
>-
>
>Friday, 23 February at 13:00 UTC
>
> 
>-
>
>Friday, 23 February at: 18:00 UTC
>
> 
>
>
> If you 

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Publication of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Child Rights Impact Assessment

[Ricky Gaines]

Dear Wikimedians,

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am pleased to announce the
publication of our first child rights impact assessment

(CRIA). This report forms an important part of the Foundation’s long-term
efforts to meet the commitments articulated in our Human Rights Policy
. The
assessment builds upon our 2020 organizational Human Rights Impact
Assessment

(HRIA), which identified risks to children’s rights as one of five
categories of significant human rights risks facing the Foundation and
Wikimedia communities. The HRIA recommended that the Foundation undertake a
targeted assessment to better understand this category of risks.

What is in the report?

Publishing this CRIA represents a significant step forward in the
Foundation’s human rights endeavors. The CRIA was prepared by Article One
, a strategy consultancy with expertise in
human rights. In it, Article One identifies and analyzes the impacts,
risks, and opportunities posed to children that access and participate in
Wikimedia projects. It proposes recommendations that the Foundation and
Wikimedia’s volunteer community could implement to mitigate those risks, so
that children can fully benefit from participating in our projects

Of the recommendations, the Foundation is positioned to act upon a number
of them, while others provide an opportunity for collaboration between the
Foundation and the volunteer community to address, and others the volunteer
community is better positioned to lead. We hope these recommendations will
give us all a basis for dialogue and collaboration around making Wikimedia
a safer space for children.

Making sense of the findings

To help you digest this report, we’ve prepared a number of resources for
you, including:

   -

   A Diff blog pos
   
t
   summarizing the findings of the CRIA and what it means for the movement;
   -

   A Meta page
   

   to serve as the “home” for the report and to provide more background
   information on the report, including its objectives, the timeline in which
   it was completed, the methodology that was employed to develop the report,
   and actions the Foundation has taken since first receiving the report;
   -

   The full report
   
,
   which contains a foreword from the Foundation’s General Counsel, an
   executive summary, a risk analysis, and recommendations. The report is
   available in English, French and Spanish.


Working together to protect child safety on Wikimedia projects

We want to hear from you on this topic: What questions do you have? What
are your thoughts on the risks and recommendations from the report? What is
your community already doing, or what would you like to do, to ensure the
safety of children on Wikimedia projects? How can we collaborate to make
progress? Leave a message on the report’s Talk page

or register and join us at either of the two community conversation hours
scheduled for the following times:

   -

   Friday, 23 February at 13:00 UTC
   

   -

   Friday, 23 February at: 18:00 UTC
   



If you prefer to ask questions or share information privately, you can also
email us at youthsur...@wikimedia.org. We will take the information we
gather across channels to prepare a map of efforts happening across the
movement and ideas for collaboration and implementation. We look forward to
hearing from you.

Thank you,

*Ricky Gaines*

Senior Human Rights Advocacy Manager

Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] January 17 at 17:30 UTC

[Kinneret Gordon]

 Quick reminder that this is happening in about 1 hour. Please join us at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 4:51 PM Kinneret Gordon 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 17,
> at 9:30 AM PST / 17:30 UTC. Find your local time here
> . The theme for this showcase
> is *Connecting Action with Policy*.
>
> You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q1SIoM. As usual, you can join the
> conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
>
> This month's presentations:
> Presenting the report "Unreliable Guidelines"By *Amber Berson and Monika
> Jones*The goal behind the report Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources
> and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias was
> to understand the effects of the set of reliable source guidelines and
> rules on the participation of and the content about marginalized
> communities on three Wikipedias. Two years following the release of their
> report, researchers Berson and Sengul-Jones reflect on the impact of their
> research as well as the actionable next steps.Why Should This Article Be
> Deleted? Transparent Stance Detection in Multilingual Wikipedia Editor
> DiscussionsBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Arnav Arora*The moderation of
> content on online platforms is usually non-transparent. On Wikipedia,
> however, this discussion is carried out publicly and the editors are
> encouraged to use the content moderation policies as explanations for
> making moderation decisions. However, currently only a few comments
> explicitly mention those policies. To aid in this process of understanding
> how content is moderated, we construct a novel multilingual dataset of
> Wikipedia editor discussions along with their reasoning in three languages.
> We demonstrate that stance and corresponding reason (policy) can be
> predicted jointly with a high degree of accuracy, adding transparency to
> the decision-making process.
>
> Best,
> Kinneret
> --
>
> Kinneret Gordon
>
> Lead Research Community Officer
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: U4C Charter vote upcoming for January 16

[Patrick Earley]

The vote has been delayed until January 19th due to technical issues, we
thank you for your patience.

Patrick

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:14 AM Patrick Earley 
wrote:

> Apologies, a correction, second paragraph: *Earlier this year *--> Early
> last year! (2023)
>
> Patrick
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:34 AM Patrick Earley 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am writing to you today with an update on the *Universal Code of
>> Conduct Coordinating Committee (or U4C) Charter
>> *
>> development process. I know some of you might already be aware of it, but
>> I’ll just summarize here briefly for anyone who may need an update about
>> this part of the UCoC development.
>>
>> Earlier this year, the *Building Committee
>> *
>> for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter started 
>> drafting
>> the Charter
>> .
>> The initial version was shared for community comment a couple of months
>> ago. After closing the community comment period, the Building Committee met
>> again to finalize some of the details before a community ratification vote.
>> This ratification was initially planned for late November.
>>
>> The Building Committee continued their conversations into December so
>> that they could present a more comprehensive Charter for community
>> ratification. The ratification vote is now scheduled to open next week, on
>> January 16.  We will provide more information about how to vote as it
>> opens.
>>
>> Thank you for following this process, and, on behalf of the Building
>> Committee, thanks to all Wikimedians who have provided comments and
>> direction for this document. We look forward to seeing the results.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Patrick
>> On behalf of the folks working on the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter
>>
>> Patrick Earley
>> Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> pear...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>
> --
> Patrick Earley
> Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> pear...@wikimedia.org
>
>

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Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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