Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Covid-19] An update on in-person gatherings

2020-08-24 Thread Lydia Hamilton
Hi Lodewijk, Thank you for your feedback. We look forward to the forthcoming September release of detailed guidance that will allow Community members to assess their ability to safely host events and activities during the current pandemic circumstances. I’d like to respond to some of your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UCoC update, emergency@, and T behavioral investigations

2020-08-24 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi, Nathan. I appreciate your recommendations; they are both very good. :) In a situation that comes through the usual processes, the investigative team would usually direct the person contacting them to a policy page on the local project or to a specific functionary group. So, Oversight, for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-24 Thread William Chan
Why the harassed normally email T but not seeking local help: Sometimes some kinds of harassment against a person or a group is an orchestrated attempt driven by off-wiki matters. Considering the "importance" of Wikipedia and it's sister projects, and the fundamentally huge size of the movement,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UCoC update, emergency@, and T behavioral investigations

2020-08-24 Thread Nathan
Hi Maggie, First, thank you for the update and for the additional background information. How does T determine *which* local processes to refer users to? In the particular case here, it might have been better if the user had been offered a mix of private or public methods to address the problem.

[Wikimedia-l] UCoC update, emergency@, and T behavioral investigations

2020-08-24 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hello, all. Yesterday some questions were raised in this channel about Trust & Safety’s response to an issue of harassment reported via our emergency email address. The director of that team reports to me, as I am the Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability, so I wanted to speak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-24 Thread
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 14:47, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > I fail to understand how requiring public report of publicly-occurring > harassment is a problem. "Don't be a cunt" "Fuck off" "Stop being hysterical" + Far worse actually gets tolerated, and I'm not quoting any here, you work

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sunday Wikispore Day mini-conference

2020-08-24 Thread Pharos
The Wikispore Day recording is now available in full on Commons (as well as on Youtube): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikispore_Day.webm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75Fv7Snc_w Here is the proposal for Wikispore as a future sister project on Meta:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-24 Thread Gnangarra
For a person to report harassment they must first feel safe to do so. Not everyone is capable of dealing with or participating in a public debate about whether they have been harassed, there is a significant difference between arguing facts on a topic and dealing with harassment and offensive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-24 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
I fail to understand how requiring public report of publicly-occurring harassment is a problem. If people are being harassed constantly via off-wiki communication, emailing a local admin team or T is definitely the best thing to do if they don’t want to make it public in an on-wiki report.

[Wikimedia-l] Language showcase, August 2020

2020-08-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This next installment will deal with the Translatable modules project—a proposal to make a framework

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's discuss first features of Desktop Improvements coming to Vector

2020-08-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Indeed! The FINAL stage of the changes is deeply conservative and not a change at all. It's a small lifting, but not a real change. We are now 10 years old, and with the new changes we will be 8 years old in a year, instead of being 11 years old. From: Olga

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's discuss first features of Desktop Improvements coming to Vector

2020-08-24 Thread Olga Vasileva
Hi Vira, Ala'a, and Galder, Thanks for your feedback - we’re really glad you’re enjoying the changes we’ve made so far. I wanted to point out that this is not all! The deployed changes are a part of a larger series of improvements that we will be rolling out progressively over the next 1+ years.