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

[Florence Devouard]

Thank you for your work Ricky, and for the intention to create a 
centralized page to explore it all. Looking forward to it.


Best

Flo


Le 01/02/2024 à 21:10, Ricky Gaines a écrit :

Hi Florence,

Thanks so much for this feedback- it's incredibly helpful! We've added 
some categories to the report's Meta page to help folks find it 
easier, and will do the same on Commons. As for connecting this page 
further- yes, I fully intend to! One of my objectives for the next few 
months is to create a centralized page about our human rights work 
that links to our Human Rights Policy, this and other human rights 
impact assessments, human rights-related resources, and other pages 
and documents that support the Foundation's work in meeting our human 
rights commitments.


Thank you again!
Ricky Gaines

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:51 AM Florence Devouard 
 wrote:


Thanks Ricky


Would it be possible that you somehow further connect the meta
page and the commons document to this meta page (or set of
pages...) to increase findability in the future ?

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Human_Rights_Policy

I could drop a link there, but maybe it deserve a slightly better
treatement (sentence or paragraph in the Human Rights Policy page ?)


Just to give a bit of background... a diff is for immediate
consumption. But will soon be in the depth of the site. In one
month... it will be invisible.

The meta page is hardly connected to any other wiki page. So if
people do not know it exist... they will not find it by chance
(see here :

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikimedia_Foundation_Child_Rights_Impact_Assessment)

And the report on Commons

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArticleOne_-_WMF_Child_Rights_Impact_Assessment_Report_2023.pdf)
does not really have any good categories that would help people
find it either (right now... only taggued with a currently non
existant category).

So your current announcements and coverage is great NOW. But is
not great for the future. It is not connected enough to other long
standing regular pathways.

Thanks in advance for your help to give a long lasting impact for
your work !


Florence


Le 17/01/2024 à 18:01, Ricky Gaines a écrit :


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 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[James Heilman]

We at Wiki Project Med Foundation are looking for contractors to work on
aspects of this problem. Reach out if you are interested.

James

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 3:32 AM Paulo Santos Perneta 
wrote:

> WMF is doing it wrong, not we.
> Many people in the movement have been alerting to this situation over the
> years, apparently to deaf ears.
>
> Paulo
>
> Felipe Schenone  escreveu (quinta, 1/02/2024 à(s)
> 07:09):
>
>> Well, perhaps you'll be elated to know then that the grants for tech seem
>> to have been removed
>> 
>>  after
>> many months of waiting for them
>> 
>> .
>> We're doing it wrong, indeed.
>>
>> El mié., 31 de ene. de 2024 11:02 p. m., Gnangarra 
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Before the WMF starts hiring, we need to be very clear exactly what
>>> pathways and objectives we want to pursue, along with what functions should
>>> be internally maintained. With that what happens with community built tools
>>> that cross over from great tools to essential community infrastructure that
>>> needs continued updates.  Perhaps part of the "hiring" option is rewarding
>>> volunteers who create them to help transition the tool to the internal
>>> system.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 01:35, Felipe Schenone 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 I also think the WMF should prioritize hiring more developers over
 other roles and expenditures. The WMF has only a few hundred developers
 while other top sites have many thousands. While this efficiency is
 something to be proud of, it evidently comes at a cost.

 El mié., 31 de ene. de 2024 4:08 a. m., rupert THURNER <
 rupert.thur...@gmail.com> escribió:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 1:27 AM Gergő Tisza  wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM Ori Livneh 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If we're collecting exemplars, I'd like to add Bartosz
>>> Ciechanowski's superlative articles
>>> , like the ones on bicycles
>>>  and sound
>>> . His articles are the best examples
>>> I know of interactive content that complements long-form text content.
>>>
>>
>> This concept was popularized by Bret Victor under the name "explorable
>> explanations ". There
>> is a whole Wikipedia article
>>  on it. There
>> are some great examples on his website, and there are some websites for
>> collecting similar content, such as explorabl.es and an awesome list
>> . I agree they are
>> really cool but...
>>
>>
>>> The critical issue is *security*. Security is the reason the graph
>>> extension is not enabled. Security is the reason why interactive SVGs 
>>> are
>>> not enabled. Interactive visualizations have a programmatic element that
>>> consists of code that executes in the user's browser. Such code needs 
>>> to be
>>> carefully sandboxed to ensure it cannot be used to exfiltrate user data 
>>> or
>>> surreptitiously perform actions on wiki.
>>>
>>
>> I think it's fundamentally a human scaling problem. Being able to
>> create good interactive content is just a much more niche skill than 
>> being
>> able to create good text content. Interactive animations were very much
>> part of Yuri's vision
>>  for
>> the Graph extension, but during the decade Graph was deployed in 
>> production
>> the number of such animations made was approximately zero. Granted Vega 
>> is
>> probably not the easiest framework for creating animations, but I don't
>> think there are other tools which would make it much easier. You could 
>> just
>> write arbitrary Javascript and package it as a gadget; but no one did 
>> that
>> either. Instead, both gadgets and Graph usage are mostly focused on very
>> basic things like showing a chess board or showing bar charts, because
>> those are the things that can be reused across a large number of articles
>> without manually tailoring the code to each, so the economics of creating
>> them work out.
>>
>
>> Security is a challenge but could be worked around via iframes. But
>> it's hard to justify the effort required for doing that when there is no
>> community of animation makers interested in it - there are plenty of
>> volunteers who want to *have* animations, but it's not very clear
>> that there are any who want to *make* animations. This is the same
>> problem geni mentioned for videos - a lot of people say "we should have
>> more videos", but it's not very 

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[Euphemia Uwandu]

Hi Everyone,

Happy February :)

The WikiForHumanRights Campaign is gearing up for its 2024 edition with
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preparations, we invite you to **register

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During the session, we will provide interpretation support for Arabic,
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 for the WikiForHumanRights 2024
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing Publication of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Child Rights Impact Assessment

[Ricky Gaines]

Hi Florence,

Thanks so much for this feedback- it's incredibly helpful! We've added some
categories to the report's Meta page to help folks find it easier, and will
do the same on Commons. As for connecting this page further- yes, I fully
intend to! One of my objectives for the next few months is to create a
centralized page about our human rights work that links to our Human Rights
Policy, this and other human rights impact assessments, human
rights-related resources, and other pages and documents that support the
Foundation's work in meeting our human rights commitments.

Thank you again!
Ricky Gaines

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:51 AM Florence Devouard 
wrote:

> Thanks Ricky
>
>
> Would it be possible that you somehow further connect the meta page and
> the commons document to this meta page (or set of pages...) to increase
> findability in the future ?
>
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Human_Rights_Policy
>
> I could drop a link there, but maybe it deserve a slightly better
> treatement (sentence or paragraph in the Human Rights Policy page ?)
>
>
> Just to give a bit of background... a diff is for immediate consumption.
> But will soon be in the depth of the site. In one month... it will be
> invisible.
>
> The meta page is hardly connected to any other wiki page. So if people do
> not know it exist... they will not find it by chance (see here :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Wikimedia_Foundation_Child_Rights_Impact_Assessment
> )
>
> And the report on Commons (
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ArticleOne_-_WMF_Child_Rights_Impact_Assessment_Report_2023.pdf)
> does not really have any good categories that would help people find it
> either (right now... only taggued with a currently non existant category).
>
> So your current announcements and coverage is great NOW. But is not great
> for the future. It is not connected enough to other long standing regular
> pathways.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help to give a long lasting impact for your
> work !
>
>
> Florence
>
>
> Le 17/01/2024 à 18:01, Ricky Gaines a écrit :
>
> 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
>
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Paulo Santos Perneta]

WMF is doing it wrong, not we.
Many people in the movement have been alerting to this situation over the
years, apparently to deaf ears.

Paulo

Felipe Schenone  escreveu (quinta, 1/02/2024 à(s)
07:09):

> Well, perhaps you'll be elated to know then that the grants for tech seem
> to have been removed
> 
>  after
> many months of waiting for them
> 
> .
> We're doing it wrong, indeed.
>
> El mié., 31 de ene. de 2024 11:02 p. m., Gnangarra 
> escribió:
>
>> Before the WMF starts hiring, we need to be very clear exactly what
>> pathways and objectives we want to pursue, along with what functions should
>> be internally maintained. With that what happens with community built tools
>> that cross over from great tools to essential community infrastructure that
>> needs continued updates.  Perhaps part of the "hiring" option is rewarding
>> volunteers who create them to help transition the tool to the internal
>> system.
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 01:35, Felipe Schenone  wrote:
>>
>>> I also think the WMF should prioritize hiring more developers over other
>>> roles and expenditures. The WMF has only a few hundred developers while
>>> other top sites have many thousands. While this efficiency is something to
>>> be proud of, it evidently comes at a cost.
>>>
>>> El mié., 31 de ene. de 2024 4:08 a. m., rupert THURNER <
>>> rupert.thur...@gmail.com> escribió:
>>>
 On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 1:27 AM Gergő Tisza  wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM Ori Livneh 
> wrote:
>
>> If we're collecting exemplars, I'd like to add Bartosz
>> Ciechanowski's superlative articles ,
>> like the ones on bicycles  and sound
>> . His articles are the best examples I
>> know of interactive content that complements long-form text content.
>>
>
> This concept was popularized by Bret Victor under the name "explorable
> explanations ". There
> is a whole Wikipedia article
>  on it. There
> are some great examples on his website, and there are some websites for
> collecting similar content, such as explorabl.es and an awesome list
> . I agree they are
> really cool but...
>
>
>> The critical issue is *security*. Security is the reason the graph
>> extension is not enabled. Security is the reason why interactive SVGs are
>> not enabled. Interactive visualizations have a programmatic element that
>> consists of code that executes in the user's browser. Such code needs to 
>> be
>> carefully sandboxed to ensure it cannot be used to exfiltrate user data 
>> or
>> surreptitiously perform actions on wiki.
>>
>
> I think it's fundamentally a human scaling problem. Being able to
> create good interactive content is just a much more niche skill than being
> able to create good text content. Interactive animations were very much
> part of Yuri's vision
>  for
> the Graph extension, but during the decade Graph was deployed in 
> production
> the number of such animations made was approximately zero. Granted Vega is
> probably not the easiest framework for creating animations, but I don't
> think there are other tools which would make it much easier. You could 
> just
> write arbitrary Javascript and package it as a gadget; but no one did that
> either. Instead, both gadgets and Graph usage are mostly focused on very
> basic things like showing a chess board or showing bar charts, because
> those are the things that can be reused across a large number of articles
> without manually tailoring the code to each, so the economics of creating
> them work out.
>

> Security is a challenge but could be worked around via iframes. But
> it's hard to justify the effort required for doing that when there is no
> community of animation makers interested in it - there are plenty of
> volunteers who want to *have* animations, but it's not very clear
> that there are any who want to *make* animations. This is the same
> problem geni mentioned for videos - a lot of people say "we should have
> more videos", but it's not very clear who would make them. If platform
> support were the bottleneck here, I think the platform support would
> happen. But as things look now, it would just be a poor investment of
> resources IMO (compared to e.g. the Gadgets extension or Toolforge or
> Scribunto which do sustain vibrant volunteer ecosystems which are
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2024 Ombuds Commission

[Karen Brown]

Hello, everyone,

I'm writing with information about the Ombuds Commission (OC), the small
group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the
privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser and
Oversight tools, on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. I
apologize for the length of the announcement. :)

The application period for new commissioners for 2024-26 recently closed.
The Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.

This year’s OC will consist of thirteen members and one Steward-Observer.
We are experimenting this year with expanding the committee's "regular"
member headcount and leaving vacant the "advisor" positions, which
historically have basically functioned as alternates in case of committee
member attrition.


I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2024 OC:
Ombuds Commission membersだ＊ぜ  <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=%E3%81%A0%EF%BC%8A%E3%81%9C
>

だ＊ぜ, who also may be referred to as Dasze, has been contributing to
Wikimedia since 2015. He's primarily active on Chinese Wikimedia projects,
where he later served as a director of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong
Kong from 2019 to 2023 while users in Hong Kong were suffering various
affection in and out of Wikimedia projects. His expertise is international
law, human rights law, and statistical and quantitative analysis thereon.
He speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, English and some Japanese.
This is Dasze's first year on the Ombuds Commission and he has been
appointed for a 2-year term.

AGK 

AGK has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2008. He is primarily active
on English Wikipedia, where he has been an administrator, Checkuser, and
Oversighter and has served as an Arbitrator. AGK served on the Ombuds
Commission in 2020 and 2021 and again in 2023. AGK's term on the Ombuds
Commission expires in 2026.
Ameisenigel<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Ameisenigel>

Ameisenigel has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2015. He is primarily
active on German Wikipedia, where he served as an Arbitrator from 2020 to
2022, and on Wikidata and is an administrator on both projects. He is also
active as a translation admin in several projects. Ameisenigel speaks
German and English. He has been on the Ombuds Commission since 2021 and his
current term expires in 2026.


Bennylin <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Bennylin>

Bennylin has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2004. He's primarily
active on Indonesian and Javanese Wikiprojects, where he's sysop in 6 of
them, Checkuser in Indonesian Wikipedia, bureaucrat in Indonesian
Wiktionary, and also active in Commons, Meta, Wikidata, and MediaWiki. He
has previously served as a global Steward. He speaks Indonesian, English,
Javanese, Chinese and some Spanish. Bennylin has been on the Ombuds
Commission since 2023 and his term expires in 2025.
Daniuu 

Daniuu has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2019. They are primarily
active on Dutch Wikipedia, where they are a sysop and have been a member of
the Arbitration Committee. They are also a global sysop and focus on
counter-vandalism work. Daniuu speaks Dutch and English. Daniuu has been on
the Ombuds Commission since 2023 and their term expires in 2025.

Doǵu

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primarily active on Turkish Wikipedia, where he has served as an
administrator, interface administrator, and oversighter. Additionally, he
is a volunteer MediaWiki developer and is currently working on the Auditor
MediaWiki extension. He is studying software and data engineering at
Singidunum University in Belgrade. His term on OC runs through 2026.
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Emufarmers has been editing Wikimedia projects since 2005. He is a
Metapedian who primarily edits the English Wikipedia; he is also a
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VRTS administrator since 2015 and has been on the Elections Committee since
2023. He served on the Ombuds Commission from 2019-2021 and again in 2023.
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[Wikimedia-l] WMBE Wikimedia Belgium 2023 reports

[Geert Van Pamel]

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[Wikimedia-l] Language & Internationalization newsletter #02 (January 2024)

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Hello everyone,

The second edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter
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