Good news. Thanks, Saroj
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017, 6:48 AM Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Good news! > > A. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> > Date: Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:38 PM > Subject: [Wmfall] Additional information on community health initiative > and next steps > To: Staff All <wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hello, > > We have an update on the community health initiative mentioned following > the Board's Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe > Spaces.[1] > > As Patrick Earley from the Support and Safety team noted on Wikimedia-l > last month[2], we’ve been developing a community health initiative to help > address the harassment issues discussed in the Board's statement. We > believe an important aspect of our efforts to combat harassment is > providing the volunteer community with better tools to more effectively > respond to instances of harassment as they arise. > > We’re excited to announce that the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist > Charitable Fund have agreed to provide initial funding to help the > Wikimedia Foundation begin this work. The two seed restricted grants, > collectively a gift of $500,000, will enable the Foundation to scale up our > support of these efforts and provide us with the resources to do it right. > > In preparing for this work, we’ve been discussing issues with the current > tools and processes with active administrators and functionaries. These > discussions have resulted in requested improvements in several key areas > where admins and functionaries see immediate needs—better reporting systems > for volunteers, smarter ways to detect and address problems early, and > improved tools and workflows related to the blocking process. > > In the coming months, the Community Tech team, working with the Support > and Safety team, will be expanding their work on development of these > tools. The long-term goal for this effort is to build up the toolbox that > volunteers can use to combat harassment and other disruptive behavior on > our wikis. > > Specifically, there are four areas where we think new tools will help: > > 1. Detection - Improve our detection and prevention tools, like > AbuseFilter, and build new features to detect aggressive behavior. > > 2. Reporting - Design ways to report harassment that are less chaotic, > more respectful of privacy, and less stressful than the current workflow. > > 3. Evaluating - Offer admins tools that make evaluating harassment reports > easier, so that they can make good decisions. > > 4. Blocking - When someone is blocked from the site, we can make it more > difficult for them to return under a different name or IP address. > > Of course, these improvements need to be made with the participation and > support of the volunteers who will be using the tools. We don't want to > create new systems and workflows that create more work for an already > overburdened team of wiki administrators. We want to make these tasks less > grueling and able to more consistently produce effective outcomes. > > Work in other areas - such as project policies and better training for > administrators and functionaries - still needs to be done in order to > comprehensively tackle the overall issue of harassment and harmful behavior > on the projects. However, we believe that improving and building better > tools for volunteers currently most engaged in this effort is a necessary > first step. > > We welcome your feedback on this approach, and invite you to join us in > thanking Craig and his charitable organizations for their support of this > initiative! > > We’ll be sharing regular updates about the progress of this work in the > coming months. If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach out > to us on the talk page of the Meta-Wiki page where you can find more > information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative > > You can also find more details about this announcement in this blog post: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/26/community-health-initiative-grant > > Danny Horn (Product Manager, Community Tech) and Patrick Earley (Manager, > Support & Safety) > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/November_2016_-_Statement_on_Healthy_Community_Culture,_Inclusivity,_and_Safe_Spaces > > [2] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-December/085668.html > _______________________________________________ > Wmfall mailing list > wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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