Hi Youngjin Ko,
Thank you for reaching out to us earlier. We’ve added an update to your request
(155769) — feel free to reply directly to this email if you’d like to share
anything further.
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James Burton, Jul 27, 2026, 16:01 PDT
Hello Youngjin Ko,
Thank you for contacting the Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team. This
is a quick note to acknowledge receipt of your email. We will carefully review
your message and reply with our thoughts as soon as we can.
Best regards,
James Burton
Trust and Safety team
Wikimedia Foundation
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Youngjin Ko, Jul 26, 2026, 05:21 PDT
Wikimedia Korea issued an open letter to the Wikimedia community and relevant
teams at WMF. The original text is located at: https://w.wiki/SnrT
Note: If the meaning of the translation is different from Korean original text,
Korean one is the correct and original one.
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**Title:** Call for an investigation into and appropriate action regarding the
sexual harassment experienced by a Wikimania participant
Dear Wikimania COT, StC and WMF Trust and Safety, and fellow Wikimedians:
First of all, we would like to express our gratitude for all your hard work in
organising this wikimania conference for Wikimedians from around the world. We
hope to gain valuable experience and useful information from this Wikimania
conference, which we can then share with our community in future. However,
we(Wikimedia Korea) are deeply disappointed to hear that a number of
unfortunate incidents continue to be reported at this year’s Wikimania in Paris.
Several key activists from Wikimedia Korea took part in this event. I had hoped
that our participants would return from this event—which brings together
Wikimedians from around the world—having gained a range of valuable
experiences, and that they would continue their activities with even greater
vigour. However, today I heard that one of our members whilst offering
well-intentioned assistance to another participant, was instead subjected to
unwanted, forced physical contact and sexual harassment. We find this deeply
regrettable and are also deeply dismayed.
We understand that the victim immediately brought this matter to your
attention. We ask that you thoroughly verify the circumstances surrounding the
incident and then inform us of the investigation process and its results
through our association’s official channels. We also request that you implement
measures to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future to ensure the
safe conduct of future events. In particular, please inform us of the
appropriate actions taken against the perpetrator and implement additional
measures to promote mutual respect and safety during the event.
While we understand that the event organizers did not anticipate such an
incident, properly addressing and disclosing the details of what happened will
be the first step toward preventing a recurrence.
Sincirencely,
July 26, 2026
Jin Ju-Wan (User:Jjw), President of Wikimedia Korea
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**Youngjin Ko (고영진)**
Senior Project Manager
Wikimedia Korea
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