This is excellent news, and has been years in the making. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Dariusz. As not all members of the Ombudsman Commission subscribe > this list, I forwarded this to them :-) > > > > 2016-01-14 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl>: > > > hi, > > > > I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and > > discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope > of > > our Ombudsman Commission, following the community consensus from a while > > back [1] > > < > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission > > > > > . > > > > The resolution was approved in November [2] > > < > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission > > > > > and > > has been just published. > > > > As a former ombudsman, as well as an endorser of the proposal, I can say > > that while this may not be a huge thing, it still is important and will, > > hopefully, make our work easier :) > > > > best, > > > > dj > > > > The Ombudsman Commission is currently the body which investigates > > complaints about violations of the privacy and access to nonpublic > > information policies established by Wikimedia Foundation and which apply > to > > all Wikimedia wiki projects. The Ombudsman Commission was appointed on 23 > > July 2006 by the Wikimedia Foundation Board with the generally narrow > scope > > of investigating potential privacy violations performed by users having > > access to the CheckUser interface (namely CheckUsers and Stewards). > > > > Over time, the Ombudsman Commission has received a growing number of > > requests to investigate cases which are not clearly complaints about > > individual CheckUser actions but may be potential or real violations of > the > > privacy policy. Following the 2006 Board Resolution's definition of the > > scope, the Ombudsman Commission has consistently rejected these requests, > > and the applicants remain unsatisfied as there is no other body in the > > Wikimedia movement tasked to resolve these problems. Therefore, the > members > > of Ombudsman Commission, with help of the WMF legal team, asked the WMF > > Board to redefine the scope of the Ombudsman Commission. > > The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has accepted the community's > > consensus and has authorized an expansion of the Ombudsman Commission's > > scope to include two more tasks: > > To review, upon request, local project CheckUser and Oversight policies > to > > ensure that they do not violate the respective global policies. > > > > To investigate, upon request, potential violations of the appropriate > > global policies by local CheckUsers and Oversighters. > > > > Investigation of potential violations of local policies which are not > > violations of the global polices remain the responsibility of the local > > project and not within the scope of the Ombudsman Commission at this > time. > > > > > > [1] > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission > > [2] > > > > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Philippe Beaudette phili...@beaudette.me 415-691-8822 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
