[Wikimedia-l] Resources for your Wikipedia 20 celebration plans

[Samir Elsharbaty]

Hello everyone,

As we are 28 days away from Wikipedia 20 celebrations and many of you are
already working on plans to host an event and/or other birthday activities,
we wanted to share some of the resources that may help with your plans!

Visual materials to use and share:

*Wikipedia 20 marks and designs. [1]

*How to create your own marks for Wikipedia 20. [2]

Resources shared this week:

*A guide to planning a virtual event. [3]

*A guide to your press/media outreach and community messaging. [4]

More resources that will be shared soon on the Wikipedia 20 portal on Meta:

*Digital swag (presentation template, zoom backgrounds, GIFs, and digital
stickers)

*A short anthemic video celebrating “20 Years Human” for use across media
and events.

*Birthday video messages from Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales for local
community celebrations.

*More social media assets in the Resources section. [5]

*More social media guidance and draft posts in the Press and social media
section. [4]

Please watch the Wikipedia 20 discussion page [6], join the Facebook group
[7] and the Telegram group [8] to keep up-to-date.

Thank you, and please share any questions you may have via email
wikipedi...@wikimedia.org, or use the discussion page. [6]

Samir Elsharbaty and the Wikipedia 20 team

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources#About_the_Wikipedia_20_Mark

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources#Making_your_own_birthday_symbol

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Events/Planning_a_virtual_event

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Media

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_20

[7] https://www.facebook.com/groups/3028324960606545

[8] https://t.me/joinchat/E1HSNh2q8E-XPzdw3pLUIw

Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)

Brand Associate

Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resources for your Wikipedia 20 celebration plans

[Rajeeb]

Thanks Samir for the update, we all look forward to celebrating Wikipedia
20 birthday.

Namaste,
Rajeeb.

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 15:13, Samir Elsharbaty 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> As we are 28 days away from Wikipedia 20 celebrations and many of you are
> already working on plans to host an event and/or other birthday activities,
> we wanted to share some of the resources that may help with your plans!
>
> Visual materials to use and share:
>
> *Wikipedia 20 marks and designs. [1]
>
> *How to create your own marks for Wikipedia 20. [2]
>
> Resources shared this week:
>
> *A guide to planning a virtual event. [3]
>
> *A guide to your press/media outreach and community messaging. [4]
>
> More resources that will be shared soon on the Wikipedia 20 portal on Meta:
>
> *Digital swag (presentation template, zoom backgrounds, GIFs, and digital
> stickers)
>
> *A short anthemic video celebrating “20 Years Human” for use across media
> and events.
>
> *Birthday video messages from Katherine Maher and Jimmy Wales for local
> community celebrations.
>
> *More social media assets in the Resources section. [5]
>
> *More social media guidance and draft posts in the Press and social media
> section. [4]
>
> Please watch the Wikipedia 20 discussion page [6], join the Facebook group
> [7] and the Telegram group [8] to keep up-to-date.
>
> Thank you, and please share any questions you may have via email
> wikipedi...@wikimedia.org, or use the discussion page. [6]
>
> Samir Elsharbaty and the Wikipedia 20 team
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources#About_the_Wikipedia_20_Mark
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources#Making_your_own_birthday_symbol
>
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Events/Planning_a_virtual_event
>
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Media
>
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Resources
>
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_20
>
> [7] https://www.facebook.com/groups/3028324960606545
>
> [8] https://t.me/joinchat/E1HSNh2q8E-XPzdw3pLUIw
>
> Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
>
> Brand Associate
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap 2021

[Eric Luth]

Hi!

2020 is slowly drawing to a close. When we have now summarized the WikiGap
Campaign in 2020, we see that – despite the ongoing pandemic! – you guys
have gathered almost 1,500 editors, and 250 new ones, to edit 19,000
articles and create almost 2,000 new ones about women! The almost 30,000
edits (!) have been viewed by just short than 45 million times in 2020
alone. Several affiliates have held their first events, and we are happy to
see that more and more people and organizations are interested in joining
the campaign. We are, as always, completely astonished! Well done, all
WikiGap organizers.

WikiGap  is an annual campaign
starting with the International Women’s Day in March, to bridge the gender
gap on Wikipedia. It is co-organized by Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies across the world, Wikimedia
affiliates, and potentially other partners.

With this email, we also want to announce that we are beginning
preparations for the WikiGap Campaign in 2021. The world looks nothing like
what we are used to, and we will do our best as global coordinators to find
a model that can work for both digital and physical events.

If you want to organize a WikiGap event in 2021, feel free to reach out to
us! We will happily help you with the next steps. If you already have
decided that you want to take part, you can list your event here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2021/Events

We also plan to experiment with international partnerships and new concepts
for international coordination next year. Stay tuned!

In the meanwhile, we wish you happy holidays, a Merry Christmas for those
who celebrate, and a happy new year.

Best
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.l...@wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95

Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

[Amir Sarabadani]

And it got deleted, in total it lived under a month and it would have been
deleted sooner if someone saw it sooner. Instead of using this as an
argument to say "this wiki is totally bad" assume good faith.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> Hello,
> I just want to mention that the userbox was created twenty days ago and is
> now being discussed for deletion.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:23 PM Fæ  wrote:
>
>> Hi Maggie,
>>
>> Thanks for publishing this nice and clear restatement of WMF's
>> commitment to a safe and non-hostile environment for Wikimedia LGBT+
>> volunteers and those of our community who are a part of minority
>> groups that we see unfairly targeted with harassment, hounding and
>> aggression across our projects. This positive response was
>> impressively fast after working together to share and discuss better
>> responses to the feedback from members of our WM-LGBT+ user group,
>> which benefits from a highly varied global membership.
>>
>> There will be many readers of this email list that have no direct
>> experience of the problematic behaviours or the systematic
>> "unwelcoming" environment that can be experienced across our projects
>> by minority groups. Here are two illustrative examples that should
>> raise an eyebrow. These samples are easy to understand and show this
>> is not a question of folks being too "thin-skinned":
>>
>> * Userboxes and user pages may include unwelcoming statements in the
>> guise of open discrimination through to unpleasant "jokes". Many users
>> are under the impression that user pages and user talk pages are
>> semi-private and fair game for free speech and is tolerated even to
>> the extent of being direct hate speech. Examples include using
>> swastika or fascist images and claiming membership of hate groups.
>> This is "tolerated" and some are embedded in templates used for years
>> as well as on specific user pages. When a LGBT+ Wikimedia contributor
>> is faced with user pages that openly and proudly are against LGBT+
>> people to exist or have a family life, the project in total has to be
>> judged unsafe and hostile. Within our User Group, it is not uncommon
>> to find LGBT+ contributors are scared to even try editing LGBT+
>> related topics on these Wikipedias.[1]
>>
>> * Articles in multiple languages exist that promote nonsensical and
>> defamatory race theories, such as claiming that Nenets (an ethnic
>> group native of arctic Russia) are part of a "neo-Mongoloid" race of
>> humans. These articles appear to deliberately misuse modern genetic
>> research and several have relied on user-created unverifiable and
>> anti-science "genetic maps" hosted on Commons. Some volunteers have
>> been persistently and politely raising these many cases using local
>> Wikipedia discussion, and externally with the WMF with the facts about
>> these defamatory Wikipedias for over a decade. The most common
>> experience is to be dismissed as a fringe lobbyist through to
>> administrators warning you from continuing to try to correct these
>> issues. There has been no systemic response to correct this damaging
>> misinformation, and the Wikipedias the misinformation is hosted on
>> remain corrupted with hostile and racist minority views.[2]
>>
>> Links:
>> 1.
>> *
>> https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%82&oldid=30403894
>> User interest templates, including a userbox with Hitler portrait,
>> translates to "This user likes Adolf Hitler".
>> * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Matt_Paletto User page on
>> Spanish Wikipedia which uses an anti-LGBT rainbow flag for showing
>> they are against same-sex marriage.
>> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Matt_Paletto Same user displays
>> the anti-LGBT flag on the Polish Wikipedia stating they are against
>> same-sex couples adopting children. There are at least 11 users on the
>> Polish Wikipedia that use the anti-LGBT flag on their user pages, not
>> as a "joke".
>> * On the English Wikipedia
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barumbarumba displays a different
>> anti-LGBT symbol to state they are against the "LGBT movement". There
>> are 17 users that have this symbol on their user pages across
>> different Wikipedias.
>>
>> 2.
>> * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256115 Tracking task for systemic
>> promotion of scientific racism, raised 6 months ago. There has been no
>> non-volunteer action to date.
>> *
>> https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89
>> Japanese Wikipedia with a "neo-Mongoloid" article.
>>
>> I hope this is helpful for those not normally involved in these issues
>> to wonder how we might better show respect and avoid defamation of
>> minorities, whilst never having to censor our coverage of all
>> (verifiable) human knowledge.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fae
>> --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

[Željko Blaće]

user or userbox got deleted?
if it was only userbox gone...
...anyway. think assuming good faith is not easy when you have to report
these things often and hope that those in power take action. croatian
wikipedia still has pro-nazi admin (one is banned finnaly after 7years) and
at least 3 maybe 5 on spectrum from right-wing nationalist to
clerical-conservatives (that is majority)

hope you all have a good weekend!
(love that meetings are not as dense)




On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 18:29, Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> And it got deleted, in total it lived under a month and it would have been
> deleted sooner if someone saw it sooner. Instead of using this as an
> argument to say "this wiki is totally bad" assume good faith.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I just want to mention that the userbox was created twenty days ago and
>> is now being discussed for deletion.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:23 PM Fæ  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Maggie,
>>>
>>> Thanks for publishing this nice and clear restatement of WMF's
>>> commitment to a safe and non-hostile environment for Wikimedia LGBT+
>>> volunteers and those of our community who are a part of minority
>>> groups that we see unfairly targeted with harassment, hounding and
>>> aggression across our projects. This positive response was
>>> impressively fast after working together to share and discuss better
>>> responses to the feedback from members of our WM-LGBT+ user group,
>>> which benefits from a highly varied global membership.
>>>
>>> There will be many readers of this email list that have no direct
>>> experience of the problematic behaviours or the systematic
>>> "unwelcoming" environment that can be experienced across our projects
>>> by minority groups. Here are two illustrative examples that should
>>> raise an eyebrow. These samples are easy to understand and show this
>>> is not a question of folks being too "thin-skinned":
>>>
>>> * Userboxes and user pages may include unwelcoming statements in the
>>> guise of open discrimination through to unpleasant "jokes". Many users
>>> are under the impression that user pages and user talk pages are
>>> semi-private and fair game for free speech and is tolerated even to
>>> the extent of being direct hate speech. Examples include using
>>> swastika or fascist images and claiming membership of hate groups.
>>> This is "tolerated" and some are embedded in templates used for years
>>> as well as on specific user pages. When a LGBT+ Wikimedia contributor
>>> is faced with user pages that openly and proudly are against LGBT+
>>> people to exist or have a family life, the project in total has to be
>>> judged unsafe and hostile. Within our User Group, it is not uncommon
>>> to find LGBT+ contributors are scared to even try editing LGBT+
>>> related topics on these Wikipedias.[1]
>>>
>>> * Articles in multiple languages exist that promote nonsensical and
>>> defamatory race theories, such as claiming that Nenets (an ethnic
>>> group native of arctic Russia) are part of a "neo-Mongoloid" race of
>>> humans. These articles appear to deliberately misuse modern genetic
>>> research and several have relied on user-created unverifiable and
>>> anti-science "genetic maps" hosted on Commons. Some volunteers have
>>> been persistently and politely raising these many cases using local
>>> Wikipedia discussion, and externally with the WMF with the facts about
>>> these defamatory Wikipedias for over a decade. The most common
>>> experience is to be dismissed as a fringe lobbyist through to
>>> administrators warning you from continuing to try to correct these
>>> issues. There has been no systemic response to correct this damaging
>>> misinformation, and the Wikipedias the misinformation is hosted on
>>> remain corrupted with hostile and racist minority views.[2]
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> 1.
>>> *
>>> https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%82&oldid=30403894
>>> User interest templates, including a userbox with Hitler portrait,
>>> translates to "This user likes Adolf Hitler".
>>> * https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Matt_Paletto User page on
>>> Spanish Wikipedia which uses an anti-LGBT rainbow flag for showing
>>> they are against same-sex marriage.
>>> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Matt_Paletto Same user displays
>>> the anti-LGBT flag on the Polish Wikipedia stating they are against
>>> same-sex couples adopting children. There are at least 11 users on the
>>> Polish Wikipedia that use the anti-LGBT flag on their user pages, not
>>> as a "joke".
>>> * On the English Wikipedia
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Barumbarumba displays a different
>>> anti-LGBT symbol to state they are against the "LGBT movement". There
>>> are 17 users that have this symbol on their user pages across
>>> different Wikipedias.
>>>
>>> 2.
>>> * ht

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

[Fæ]

Pages that include "this user likes Hitler" with a portrait of Hitler,
pages which proudly declare that users are against LGBT+ rights, the
existence of LGBT+ people or the rights of LGBT+ people to have
children, do not require anyone to "assume good faith". Those are
disturbing and hateful things to publish on any web site, and WMF
projects are being misused to host them.

Painting this in such a way that whistle-blowers should not highlight
these cases because the complainant looks like they are saying "this
wiki is totally bad" misses the point entirely. Claiming that the
problem is solved once a userbox is deleted, but no other action was
taken by local administrators, or the WMF Office, is sticking a
plaster on a broken leg.

The facts are that 28 user accounts were mentioned in this email
thread that actively misuse their user pages. Nothing has happened
from the perspective of those accounts, and they probably firmly
believe they have done nothing wrong. Local editors should be worried
that their project remains a hostile environment.

By the way, the "Hitler userbox" was never a userbox. It's still on
display, so I'm unsure what actions you refer to.

Thanks,
Fae
-- 
fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 17:28, Amir Sarabadani  wrote:
>
> And it got deleted, in total it lived under a month and it would have been 
> deleted sooner if someone saw it sooner. Instead of using this as an argument 
> to say "this wiki is totally bad" assume good faith.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I just want to mention that the userbox was created twenty days ago and is 
>> now being discussed for deletion.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:23 PM Fæ  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Maggie,
>>>
>>> Thanks for publishing this nice and clear restatement of WMF's
>>> commitment to a safe and non-hostile environment for Wikimedia LGBT+
>>> volunteers and those of our community who are a part of minority
>>> groups that we see unfairly targeted with harassment, hounding and
>>> aggression across our projects. This positive response was
>>> impressively fast after working together to share and discuss better
>>> responses to the feedback from members of our WM-LGBT+ user group,
>>> which benefits from a highly varied global membership.
>>>
>>> There will be many readers of this email list that have no direct
>>> experience of the problematic behaviours or the systematic
>>> "unwelcoming" environment that can be experienced across our projects
>>> by minority groups. Here are two illustrative examples that should
>>> raise an eyebrow. These samples are easy to understand and show this
>>> is not a question of folks being too "thin-skinned":
>>>
>>> * Userboxes and user pages may include unwelcoming statements in the
>>> guise of open discrimination through to unpleasant "jokes". Many users
>>> are under the impression that user pages and user talk pages are
>>> semi-private and fair game for free speech and is tolerated even to
>>> the extent of being direct hate speech. Examples include using
>>> swastika or fascist images and claiming membership of hate groups.
>>> This is "tolerated" and some are embedded in templates used for years
>>> as well as on specific user pages. When a LGBT+ Wikimedia contributor
>>> is faced with user pages that openly and proudly are against LGBT+
>>> people to exist or have a family life, the project in total has to be
>>> judged unsafe and hostile. Within our User Group, it is not uncommon
>>> to find LGBT+ contributors are scared to even try editing LGBT+
>>> related topics on these Wikipedias.[1]
>>>
>>> * Articles in multiple languages exist that promote nonsensical and
>>> defamatory race theories, such as claiming that Nenets (an ethnic
>>> group native of arctic Russia) are part of a "neo-Mongoloid" race of
>>> humans. These articles appear to deliberately misuse modern genetic
>>> research and several have relied on user-created unverifiable and
>>> anti-science "genetic maps" hosted on Commons. Some volunteers have
>>> been persistently and politely raising these many cases using local
>>> Wikipedia discussion, and externally with the WMF with the facts about
>>> these defamatory Wikipedias for over a decade. The most common
>>> experience is to be dismissed as a fringe lobbyist through to
>>> administrators warning you from continuing to try to correct these
>>> issues. There has been no systemic response to correct this damaging
>>> misinformation, and the Wikipedias the misinformation is hosted on
>>> remain corrupted with hostile and racist minority views.[2]
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> 1.
>>> * 
>>> https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1/%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%82&oldid=30403894
>>> User interest templates, including a userbox with Hitler portrait,
>>> translates to "This user l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation commitment of support for LGBT+ volunteers

[Amir Sarabadani]

The list of userboxes was cached and just needed a null edit. The TfD is
here: https://w.wiki/r9U

There is no AGF for a user that identifies as a Nazi, the AGF is about the
whole wiki. In other words, you can't just say a wiki is hostile against
LGBT+ users because someone somewhere in that wiki said he likes Hitler
[1]. That's a strawman fallacy. As a CU, 'crat, admin and oversight of that
wiki who put a huge picture of two guys kissing in his user page, I can say
fawiki is in much better shape than lots of Wikis in matter of supporting
LGBT+ volunteers and giving them a safe space.

[1] The weird part is that the same user has another userbox saying "This
user believes in equality of rights of gay peopole" (but OTOH, if a person
would be properly rational, they have not been a Nazi in the first place).

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 7:31 PM Fæ  wrote:

> Pages that include "this user likes Hitler" with a portrait of Hitler,
> pages which proudly declare that users are against LGBT+ rights, the
> existence of LGBT+ people or the rights of LGBT+ people to have
> children, do not require anyone to "assume good faith". Those are
> disturbing and hateful things to publish on any web site, and WMF
> projects are being misused to host them.
>
> Painting this in such a way that whistle-blowers should not highlight
> these cases because the complainant looks like they are saying "this
> wiki is totally bad" misses the point entirely. Claiming that the
> problem is solved once a userbox is deleted, but no other action was
> taken by local administrators, or the WMF Office, is sticking a
> plaster on a broken leg.
>
> The facts are that 28 user accounts were mentioned in this email
> thread that actively misuse their user pages. Nothing has happened
> from the perspective of those accounts, and they probably firmly
> believe they have done nothing wrong. Local editors should be worried
> that their project remains a hostile environment.
>
> By the way, the "Hitler userbox" was never a userbox. It's still on
> display, so I'm unsure what actions you refer to.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 17:28, Amir Sarabadani  wrote:
> >
> > And it got deleted, in total it lived under a month and it would have
> been deleted sooner if someone saw it sooner. Instead of using this as an
> argument to say "this wiki is totally bad" assume good faith.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I just want to mention that the userbox was created twenty days ago and
> is now being discussed for deletion.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:23 PM Fæ  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Maggie,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for publishing this nice and clear restatement of WMF's
> >>> commitment to a safe and non-hostile environment for Wikimedia LGBT+
> >>> volunteers and those of our community who are a part of minority
> >>> groups that we see unfairly targeted with harassment, hounding and
> >>> aggression across our projects. This positive response was
> >>> impressively fast after working together to share and discuss better
> >>> responses to the feedback from members of our WM-LGBT+ user group,
> >>> which benefits from a highly varied global membership.
> >>>
> >>> There will be many readers of this email list that have no direct
> >>> experience of the problematic behaviours or the systematic
> >>> "unwelcoming" environment that can be experienced across our projects
> >>> by minority groups. Here are two illustrative examples that should
> >>> raise an eyebrow. These samples are easy to understand and show this
> >>> is not a question of folks being too "thin-skinned":
> >>>
> >>> * Userboxes and user pages may include unwelcoming statements in the
> >>> guise of open discrimination through to unpleasant "jokes". Many users
> >>> are under the impression that user pages and user talk pages are
> >>> semi-private and fair game for free speech and is tolerated even to
> >>> the extent of being direct hate speech. Examples include using
> >>> swastika or fascist images and claiming membership of hate groups.
> >>> This is "tolerated" and some are embedded in templates used for years
> >>> as well as on specific user pages. When a LGBT+ Wikimedia contributor
> >>> is faced with user pages that openly and proudly are against LGBT+
> >>> people to exist or have a family life, the project in total has to be
> >>> judged unsafe and hostile. Within our User Group, it is not uncommon
> >>> to find LGBT+ contributors are scared to even try editing LGBT+
> >>> related topics on these Wikipedias.[1]
> >>>
> >>> * Articles in multiple languages exist that promote nonsensical and
> >>> defamatory race theories, such as claiming that Nenets (an ethnic
> >>> group native of arctic Russia) are part of a "neo-Mongoloid" race of
> >>> humans. These articles appear to deliberately misuse modern genetic
> >>> research and several have relied on user-creat