Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Foundation events team

[Cornelius Kibelka]

Welcome, Joel and Isabel! Looking forward to meet you in person.
Congratulations, Rachel, for the new team! :)

Just a question: Isabel, are you now the official successor of Ellie Young?
Can we direct questions about Wikimania to you? (as soon as you're
onboarded :)

Cheers
Cornelius



On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 20:03, Chris Keating 
wrote:

> Thanks for the update Maggie and welcome Joel and Isabel!
>
> I just wanted to ask about this bit of your email:
>
>
> > this new Events
> > Team, which will be focused on convenorship -- a critical part of our
> > outreach and growth dynamic.
>
>
> I haven't heard the word "convenorship" before, could someone explain what
> it means in our context?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

[Peter Southwood]

Natasha,
I seldom rush to be the first to express an opinion. It may be that this humour 
has deeply affected some people, but it is my considered opinion that they have 
jumped to a conclusion without due reflection themselves. Accusing a person 
with no known history of baiting people for their gender identification of 
doing just that, when they tried to make it clear that that was not their 
intention within the constraints of not over-explaining a joke, seems like 
attempting to use the article for political purposes to push an agenda for 
special use of terminology on Wikipedia which is not used by reliable sources 
by claiming extreme outrage. Maybe I am wrong, but that is what it looks like 
to me. I can imagine other alternatives too, and they are even worse. 
As far as I am aware, we are having the conversation freely, so yes, by all 
means. 
The "joked about party" can express what they feel about such "jokes", and are 
doing so to the extent that they appear to consider it quite OK to assume that 
their assumption that they are the target of the jokes is true because they 
choose to take it that way, and that the word of the author is irrelevant, and 
that it is perfectly acceptable to harass someone because they chose to be 
offended. This may be happening with others who do not feel personally targeted 
too, but I don’t know what  their reasoning is.
Cheers, 
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Sent: 05 March 2019 16:12
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

Hi Peter, 

Please take time to reflect that this humour has deeply affected some people 
(and not only the persons who outed publicly taking risks), hence the reaction. 
To those who do not understand how LGBTIQ people feel about jokes on their 
identity and the legitimate desire that adequate language be used to express it 
might just seem superfluous and look like an overreaction, but it does echo a 
deep suffering which takes place after being joked about virtually everywhere 
and not being able to express opinion when on the otherside, freedom of speech 
is invoked to promote such jokes. Advocates of freedom of speech do not try to 
silence opinions. 
Just look at what happened recently in France around the Ligue du lol affair, 
and maybe you will understand what is at stake here (1). 

Jokes are not bad in themselves, they become problematic when they 
systematically target the same group of people (women, LGBTIQ  people, 
minorities ect...) , and when they are issued systematically by the same group 
of people not aware of their own priviledge, and when they are disseminated 
through official channels. They can pave the way to problematic behaviors if 
the « joked about party » cannot in turn express freely what they feel about 
these jokes. 
I have a request : can we have the conversation freely? 
This is in no way underevaluating the value of the Signpost and the remarkable 
work done by people like you.
Maybe more articles on the subject of harassement and gender issues are needed 
in the Signpost to adress this issue, to lay down the cards, and maybe not in 
humour tone.
To finish  I want to thank Barbara  from the bottom of my heart  for showing 
willingness to apologize and understand (because the effect of this is soothing 
and shows willingness to understand) and I thank Fae for speaking out. 
If all protagonists could now calm down and consider that the very fact the 
conversation is taking place is positive, I think we would all have gained in 
freedom of speech. 

Good afternoon, 

Nattes à chat

(1) 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/world/europe/la-ligue-du-lol-sexual-harassment.html





> Le 5 mars 2019 à 10:07, Peter Southwood  a 
> écrit :
> 
> "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
> Overreacting is a tradition at Wikipedia. 
> Cheers, 
> Peter
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf 
> Of Michel Vuijlsteke
> Sent: 03 March 2019 19:49
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"
> 
> I don't understand in which possible world anyone thought this was a good
> idea.
> 
> The MfD, that is. It, and the entire discussion in favour, reads as some
> sort of caricature of the worst SJW-type excesses.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 16:41, Fæ  wrote:
>> 
>> As the last second repost had the same format error, I am trying for a
>> final time. How embarrassing!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish and Barbara (WVS), and more
>> generally to the Wikipedia community, for any possible implication
>> given in my previous email to this list, that authors of the
>> problematic Signpost "Pronouns beware" essay, might in any way be
>> thought to be transphobic. This was 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and Israeli Archives

[Sam Oyeyele]

Congrats to the WMIL team! Welldone!

Sam.

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Ivan 
Martínez 
Sent: 27 February 2019 7:27 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and 
Israeli Archives

Congratulations Michal and Wikimedia Israel!

El mié., 27 feb. 2019 a las 2:33, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel (<
it...@wikimedia.org.il>) escribió:

> You can also read more about it on Haaretz:
>
>
> https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-after-uploading-28-000-historical-images-wikimedia-signs-deal-with-national-library-1.6976376
>
>
>
> *Itzik Edri*
> Chairperson
> it...@wikimedia.org.il
> +972-54-5878078
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:19 PM Michal Lester 
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm happy to share with you that last Monday, nearly four months after
> > Wikimedia Israel’s extraction of nearly 28-thousand public-domain
> > photographs  from
> archives
> > affiliated with the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, an
> agreement
> > was finally reached to reconcile the differences between the parties and
> to
> > assure future cooperation.
> >
> > The archives from which the photographs had been extracted last November
> > questioned the legitimacy of Wikimedia Israel’s move and demanded an
> > apology for the misuse of their websites. They agreed, on the other hand,
> > to enhance access to public-domain material stored in their archives and
> to
> > further cooperation with Wikimedia Israel.
> >
> > Following the agreement, Wikimedia Israel released a statement saying it
> > “regrets the situation that has resulted from lack of communication
> between
> > the archives and Wikimedia Israel”. The statement further says that
> > “different world-views and organizational cultures harmed the dialogue
> and
> > distorted the understanding of the intentions of the archives and of
> > Wikimedia Israel”. The statement ends by saying that “this is not how the
> > affairs should have been conducted, and we wish to apologize to anyone
> who
> > sees themselves offended by the move”.
> >
> > The agreement calls for better access to public material, while
> maintaining
> > better sensitivity, and “respecting the rights of those who deposited the
> > material and the Israeli law”. In addition, Wikimedia Israel offered its
> > help in the effort to digitalize the material and make it more
> accessible.
> > This should serve not only Israelis, but also people throughout the
> Middle
> > East, who could find interest in historical photographs taken decades ago
> > in neighboring countries and territories.
> >
> > I hope that in the near future this agreement will lead to a better
> > collaboration and releasing of materials.
> >
> > Michal
> >
> >
> >
> > *Michal Lester,*
> >
> > *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Foundation events team

[Chris Keating]

Thanks for the update Maggie and welcome Joel and Isabel!

I just wanted to ask about this bit of your email:


> this new Events
> Team, which will be focused on convenorship -- a critical part of our
> outreach and growth dynamic.


I haven't heard the word "convenorship" before, could someone explain what
it means in our context?

Thanks!

Chris
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Education SAARC conference -2019

[Satdeep Gill]

This seems like a really nice initiative Ananth! Looking forward to it.

Best
Satdeep

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ananth Subray 
wrote:

> Greetings from CIS-A2K,
>
> I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC
> conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22
> June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department
> of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic
> Wikimedia projects with the help of students.
>
> Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
> conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
> leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
> knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
> different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
> Education movement.
>
> We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
> for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
> [1].
>
> [1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

[Delphine Dallison]

Hi Natacha,

I want to thank you for this response, which greatly reflects my own feelings 
on this incident. As an individual who identifies as genderqueer, I was greatly 
saddened by the humour column posted in The Signpost as I felt a) it failed to 
actually be humorous and b) it reflected poorly on the Wikimedia community who 
I consider on the whole a very open-minded, respectful and accepting community 
when it comes to issues of gender and trans rights. As a trainer, I often refer 
to the Q on talk pages of articles such as Chelsea Manning 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chelsea_Manning) to illustrate the way in 
which the wiki community reach consensus and operate with respect in situations 
where notable individuals self-declare changes in the gender and pronouns by 
which they wish to be identified. I believe that that should be the message 
that we should be publicizing rather than some tired jokes at the expense of a 
minority group. 
I would also like to second your thanks to both Barbara and Fae, who I agree 
both demonstrated good faith by in turn apologizing for any offense caused and 
for speaking out when the situation required it.

Best wishes,

Delphine Dallison
Wikimedian in Residence
Scottish Library and Information Council 
Turnberry House 
Suite 5:5, Fifth Floor
175 West George Street
Glasgow G2 2LB
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-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l  On Behalf Of 
Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
Sent: 05 March 2019 14:12
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

Hi Peter, 

Please take time to reflect that this humour has deeply affected some people 
(and not only the persons who outed publicly taking risks), hence the reaction. 
To those who do not understand how LGBTIQ people feel about jokes on their 
identity and the legitimate desire that adequate language be used to express it 
might just seem superfluous and look like an overreaction, but it does echo a 
deep suffering which takes place after being joked about virtually everywhere 
and not being able to express opinion when on the otherside, freedom of speech 
is invoked to promote such jokes. Advocates of freedom of speech do not try to 
silence opinions. 
Just look at what happened recently in France around the Ligue du lol affair, 
and maybe you will understand what is at stake here (1). 

Jokes are not bad in themselves, they become problematic when they 
systematically target the same group of people (women, LGBTIQ  people, 
minorities ect...) , and when they are issued systematically by the same group 
of people not aware of their own priviledge, and when they are disseminated 
through official channels. They can pave the way to problematic behaviors if 
the « joked about party » cannot in turn express freely what they feel about 
these jokes. 
I have a request : can we have the conversation freely? 
This is in no way underevaluating the value of the Signpost and the remarkable 
work done by people like you.
Maybe more articles on the subject of harassement and gender issues are needed 
in the Signpost to adress this issue, to lay down the cards, and maybe not in 
humour tone.
To finish  I want to thank Barbara  from the bottom of my heart  for showing 
willingness to apologize and understand (because the effect of this is soothing 
and shows willingness to understand) and I thank Fae for speaking out. 
If all protagonists could now calm down and consider that the very fact the 
conversation is taking place is positive, I think we would all have gained in 
freedom of speech. 

Good afternoon, 

Nattes à chat

(1) 
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2019%2F02%2F12%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fla-ligue-du-lol-sexual-harassment.htmldata=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7C148b9268e22b47a8941308d6a1748d1e%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C0%7C0%7C636873919294097051sdata=l1ixYJtHyqRs11zHsD7Ic9Y2NFb2cq%2FdFlUusnLNBVI%3Dreserved=0





> Le 5 mars 2019 à 10:07, Peter Southwood  a 
> écrit :
> 
> "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
> Overreacting is a tradition at Wikipedia. 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michel Vuijlsteke
> Sent: 03 March 2019 19:49
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"
> 
> I don't understand in which possible world anyone thought this was a 
> good idea.
> 
> The MfD, that is. It, and the entire discussion in favour, reads as 
> some sort of caricature of the worst SJW-type excesses.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 16:41, Fæ  wrote:
>> 
>> As the last second repost had the same format error, I am trying for 
>> a final time. How embarrassing!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Hi Peter, 

Please take time to reflect that this humour has deeply affected some people 
(and not only the persons who outed publicly taking risks), hence the reaction. 
To those who do not understand how LGBTIQ people feel about jokes on their 
identity and the legitimate desire that adequate language be used to express it 
might just seem superfluous and look like an overreaction, but it does echo a 
deep suffering which takes place after being joked about virtually everywhere 
and not being able to express opinion when on the otherside, freedom of speech 
is invoked to promote such jokes. Advocates of freedom of speech do not try to 
silence opinions. 
Just look at what happened recently in France around the Ligue du lol affair, 
and maybe you will understand what is at stake here (1). 

Jokes are not bad in themselves, they become problematic when they 
systematically target the same group of people (women, LGBTIQ  people, 
minorities ect...) , and when they are issued systematically by the same group 
of people not aware of their own priviledge, and when they are disseminated 
through official channels. They can pave the way to problematic behaviors if 
the « joked about party » cannot in turn express freely what they feel about 
these jokes. 
I have a request : can we have the conversation freely? 
This is in no way underevaluating the value of the Signpost and the remarkable 
work done by people like you.
Maybe more articles on the subject of harassement and gender issues are needed 
in the Signpost to adress this issue, to lay down the cards, and maybe not in 
humour tone.
To finish  I want to thank Barbara  from the bottom of my heart  for showing 
willingness to apologize and understand (because the effect of this is soothing 
and shows willingness to understand) and I thank Fae for speaking out. 
If all protagonists could now calm down and consider that the very fact the 
conversation is taking place is positive, I think we would all have gained in 
freedom of speech. 

Good afternoon, 

Nattes à chat

(1) 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/world/europe/la-ligue-du-lol-sexual-harassment.html





> Le 5 mars 2019 à 10:07, Peter Southwood  a 
> écrit :
> 
> "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
> Overreacting is a tradition at Wikipedia. 
> Cheers, 
> Peter
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf 
> Of Michel Vuijlsteke
> Sent: 03 March 2019 19:49
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"
> 
> I don't understand in which possible world anyone thought this was a good
> idea.
> 
> The MfD, that is. It, and the entire discussion in favour, reads as some
> sort of caricature of the worst SJW-type excesses.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 16:41, Fæ  wrote:
>> 
>> As the last second repost had the same format error, I am trying for a
>> final time. How embarrassing!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish and Barbara (WVS), and more
>> generally to the Wikipedia community, for any possible implication
>> given in my previous email to this list, that authors of the
>> problematic Signpost "Pronouns beware" essay, might in any way be
>> thought to be transphobic. This was an important matter to word
>> precisely and accurately. I take responsibility and apologise, it was
>> stupid of me to fail to ensure that there could be no way that my
>> words might appear to be intended as an attack on the person, rather
>> than criticism of the judgement used when writing this essay, and the
>> choice to publish it on Wikipedia.
>> 
>> I refrained from correcting this email previously, as it was thought
>> to be better to avoid stirring up any further drama, however this was
>> being interpreted by one of the authors as deliberately avoiding
>> making any correction.[1] I apologise for that misjudgement, and my
>> failure to understand how a delay would appear. My thanks go to
>> SMcCandlish for raising their complaint that a correction was needed.
>> 
>> The rest of this email runs on the long side, if you have been
>> following the deletion discussion, there is probably nothing new here.
>> :-)
>> 
>> My action in acting transparently as a whistleblower, was to criticise
>> the editorial judgement of creating an essay which made jokes about
>> pronoun usage which would, and has, been read as making a bad joke
>> that mocks genderqueer and transgender people. This problem of how the
>> article could be read, was raised by others before publication.
>> Overwhelmingly the deletion discussion created for the essay has had
>> feedback from many long term and experienced Wikipedians who were
>> alarmed and upset that the article was published without this problem
>> being acted on, and either halting publication, or ensuring a
>> resubmission so there could be no confusion that the article appeared
>> abusive or a failure to 

[Wikimedia-l] New Foundation events team

[Maggie Dennis]

Hello. :)

I want to introduce you all to three new events-focused people at the
Foundation and also to inform you about the formation of a new team. Events
are an important infrastructure in Wikimedia movement, enabling movement
building, knowledge sharing, partnership and outreach opportunities, and
much more. They enable us to connect, to learn from one another, to
collaborate on shared goals, and to unify around common agendas. To enable
more efficient support and collaboration, we have created this new Events
Team, which will be focused on convenorship -- a critical part of our
outreach and growth dynamic.

Joël Letang is the Events Team Manager, a newly created position designed
to oversee an events strategy to deepen the impact and partnerships of
movement events. He will be your contact point for strategy and
partnerships in events.

Isabel Cueva is a Program Manager for Community Events and will be working
predominantly on Wikimania.

Also part of the new Events Team is Rachel Farrand, who has been with the
Foundation since 2011 and has for four years been the primary Events
Program Manager for technical events supported by the Foundation.

Distinct from the Events Team but an important contributor to that work is Chen
Almog, the Program Officer for Conferences & Events on the Community
Resources team. She is your contact point for grants on movement events.
You can read more about that program here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference

I look forward to working with all four in our ever-improving events
ecosystem!

Best,

Maggie

-- 
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Vice President, Support & Services
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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[Wikimedia-l] Picture of the Year | 2018 | round 2 voting open

[Steinsplitter Wiki]

Dear Wikimedians,


We are happy to announce that the second round of the 2018 Picture of the Year 
(twelfth edition!) competition is now open.


In the second and current round, you may vote for up to 3 finalists you like. 
Each of these 3 votes counts equal and one candidate must be only voted once. 
Note: if someone casts more than three votes, only the 3 most recent votes will 
be counted.  Round 2 will end 17 March 2019, 23:59:59.


You can vote here:  
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2018/R2/Gallery


Thanks,
POTY 2018 committee



Von: Steinsplitter Wiki im Auftrag von Steinsplitter Wiki 

Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2019 15:47
An: Wikimedia Mailing List; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List; 
commons-p...@lists.wikimedia.org
Betreff: Picture of the Year | 2018 | round 1 voting open

Dear Wikimedians,

We are happy to announce that the 2018 Picture of the Year
competition is now open. This is the thirteenth edition of POTY.

Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured
on Commons (FP) during the year 2018, to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the
international Wikimedia Commons community. From professional animal and plant
shots to breathtaking panoramas and historically relevant images, Commons
features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

[Peter Southwood]

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
Overreacting is a tradition at Wikipedia. 
Cheers, 
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Michel Vuijlsteke
Sent: 03 March 2019 19:49
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of Wikimedia projects for anti-LGBT+ "humour"

I don't understand in which possible world anyone thought this was a good
idea.

The MfD, that is. It, and the entire discussion in favour, reads as some
sort of caricature of the worst SJW-type excesses.

M.



On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 at 16:41, Fæ  wrote:

> As the last second repost had the same format error, I am trying for a
> final time. How embarrassing!
>
> 
>
> I would like to apologise to SMcCandlish and Barbara (WVS), and more
> generally to the Wikipedia community, for any possible implication
> given in my previous email to this list, that authors of the
> problematic Signpost "Pronouns beware" essay, might in any way be
> thought to be transphobic. This was an important matter to word
> precisely and accurately. I take responsibility and apologise, it was
> stupid of me to fail to ensure that there could be no way that my
> words might appear to be intended as an attack on the person, rather
> than criticism of the judgement used when writing this essay, and the
> choice to publish it on Wikipedia.
>
> I refrained from correcting this email previously, as it was thought
> to be better to avoid stirring up any further drama, however this was
> being interpreted by one of the authors as deliberately avoiding
> making any correction.[1] I apologise for that misjudgement, and my
> failure to understand how a delay would appear. My thanks go to
> SMcCandlish for raising their complaint that a correction was needed.
>
> The rest of this email runs on the long side, if you have been
> following the deletion discussion, there is probably nothing new here.
> :-)
>
> My action in acting transparently as a whistleblower, was to criticise
> the editorial judgement of creating an essay which made jokes about
> pronoun usage which would, and has, been read as making a bad joke
> that mocks genderqueer and transgender people. This problem of how the
> article could be read, was raised by others before publication.
> Overwhelmingly the deletion discussion created for the essay has had
> feedback from many long term and experienced Wikipedians who were
> alarmed and upset that the article was published without this problem
> being acted on, and either halting publication, or ensuring a
> resubmission so there could be no confusion that the article appeared
> abusive or a failure to respect genderqueer and nonbinary people.[0]
> Many deletion comments have called the article "transphobic". Nobody
> as far as I have seen, has mistakenly called the authors transphobes.
> There is a good faith presumption that cause is an error of judgement.
> It has been explained several times by myself and others in related
> Wikipedia discussions that objecting to a published joke being
> offensive to a minority group, in no way implies or presumes that the
> author(s) deliberately intended to cause offense to that minority
> group.Thanks,
>
> Thankfully the Signpost essay has been hidden from view while the
> deletion discussion continues, an action that resolves the immediate
> issue, and removes any need for me to be involved.
>
> I have not made a complaint to the Technical Spaces Code of Conduct
> Committee, and decided to let a thread on meta stay closed with regard
> to use of a unpaid volunteer WMF related title that requires
> compliance with the Code of Conduct.
>
> I sent a friendly confidential email to the Wikimedia Wiki Education
> project for comment, as Barbara chose to publish the essay using the
> unpaid volunteer account that specifically represented Wiki Education,
> though again, this was not a formal complaint. I had one informal
> reply back saying they were looking into it. I have not emailed anyone
> else with regard to the authors or their actions. Explicitly, I have
> not contacted anyone's employer nor anyone else not directly part of
> Wikimedia projects.
>
> Barbara has thoughtfully stated in a personal email to me, and on her
> Wikipedia talk page, that she is preparing a formal apology as one of
> the coauthors.
>
> Thankfully SMcCandlish has agreed with the article being hidden from
> view, and continues to debate the article deletion. They chose to
> raised an ANI request against me for "canvassing and
> incivility/aspersions in gender-related disputes", which was closed
> without action toThanks,day.[3] At the time of writing this email, there
> are
> claims by SMcCandlish that they are "accused of being a transphobe",
> it is unclear who is doing this.[4]
>
> The WMF have taken the unusual step of refusing an email promoting the
> Signpost on the announcements list, due to "multiple reports of
> concerns related to