Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy update

[টিটো দত্ত Tito Dutta]

Greetings,
Thanks for the update. This is very delighting to see the stepping in. Good
wishes for the interesting work ahead.
Regards.

শুক্র, ২ এপ্রিল, ২০২১ ৮:৩৬ PM তারিখে Maggie Dennis 
লিখেছেন:

> Hello, all. :)
>
> I’m Maggie Dennis ,
> Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability
> ,
> a division of the Legal Department at the Wikimedia Foundation. I oversee
> the functions of  Community Development, Trust & Safety Policy, Trust &
> Safety Operations, Human Rights protection, and, now, Movement Strategy.[1]
>
> That last point is the purpose of my outreach. Many of you are aware that
> our Chief of Staff, Ryan Merkley, has recently chosen to depart the
> Foundation. Movement Strategy was housed with him. A long time Wikimedian
> myself - user Moonriddengirl; pretty dormant right now but still very
> interested! - I am delighted to step in to do all I can to keep the
> momentum of this critical work going and to support however I can the
> movement and the Foundation in meeting these strategic goals. Kaarel
> Vaidla , with whom
> many of you have connected during this process, will be part of my
> division, reporting to Quim Gil
> .
>
> The transition phase was wrapped up
> 
> last quarter, and it is time to start the implementation phase, looking at
> which projects can move forward first.[2] Among these, the Movement
> Charter
> 
> is an essential tool for the implementation of the Strategy 2030, and it is
> important to begin its draft.[3] There is also a lot of curiosity around 
> regional
> and thematic hubs
> ,
> and also many questions, and we are ready to support resolving some of
> these.[4]
>
> It has been my goal to do quarterly community meetings, but because of
> this and other transitions, I’m a little behind. I had hoped to be able
> today to invite you to meet me on Saturday, April 17, and I may be able to
> do that in just a few days! If not that week, soon thereafter. There are
> some details still being worked out. In that meeting, I will be available
> to talk about all matters related to the work of Community Resilience &
> Sustainability - which includes Movement Strategy and the Universal Code of
> Conduct, among others. You can send your questions now (in any language) to
> answ...@wikimedia.org. Please use the term “CR” in the subject line so
> that it is identified as a question for me. :)  We will be inviting people
> to join the meeting via multiple platforms to ask “live” as well. After the
> event, we will release a video recording and a written summary of the
> meeting. You can find details of our office hours past, including links to
> videos and summaries, at the bottom of our Meta page
> .[1
> again!]
>
> I’m very excited about all the implementation work ahead of us!  :)
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
> Maggie
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Global_Conversations
>
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Global_Conversations/Report/January
>
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Follow-up_events/Cluster_D
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

[Fæ]

Unfortunately, I have to report a complete lack of response or
evidence of interest by the WMF taking even the most basic steps to
enforce the commitments that the WMF themselves chose to publish to
this email list.

WMF legal returned an automatic reference number "[Request received] -
24634" on 4 March 2021 (29 days ago). They have not bothered to write
back to recognize the problem or give a "human" response.

I had thought that after the recent progress of dialogue with the
LGBT+ Wikimedia community, that the example problem survey would be
taken down, it was not. Instead, the survey stayed open despite these
complaints through to 23rd March, presumably letting the WMF funding
survey fulfill its objectives, even as it presented some risk to
volunteers that participated. The references to standard Google terms
and conditions were never revised, despite official claims by the WMF
that they did not apply.

These failures and documented false claims by the WMF are
unacceptable, and a massive letdown for other members of WMF staff
that are working incredibly hard to provide better protection and
support for Wikimedian volunteers who represent minority groups.

This case of badly organized surveys has established a basis for
future mistrust, not one of working together or a meaningful
consultation.

Sorry.

Fae

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 16:15, Fæ  wrote:
>
> The most recent official WMF survey "Media Matching Screener
> Survey"[1] which has terms and conditions published on 26 Feb 2021 by
> LMixter (WMF)[2] was promoted on Wikimedia Commons on 1 March 2021 by
> MRaish (WMF),[3] has no mechanism for tracking the geographic region
> of contributors, as demonstrated by the fact that it can be edited by
> open proxies. There are no questions within it or rubric that advise
> contributors not to answer any questions if they are writing from
> certain countries. The first page of the survey asks "What is your
> gender identification?". Every page of the form has a link to "Report
> Abuse" which takes the user to an apparent "Google Forms" standard
> non-WMF statement about abuse with a long statement about a nudity
> policy, and is presumably based on the Privacy Statement[2] a GooglePersonal 
> and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote.
> internal report, not a WMF managed one. Page 3 has the question "What
> is your country of residence?" but is only asked in the context of
> paying the respondent unspecified compensation.
>
> The survey Privacy Statment[2] acts as the terms and conditions for
> the survey. It does not match the statement made on 17 February 2021.
> Instead, this links to the standard Google Privacy Policy [4] and the
> standard Google Terms of Service[5]. These terms contradict the 17
> February 2021 WMF statement.
>
> Copying in WMF legal to this email, as the earlier statements which
> are asserted to have been reviewed with WMF legal, appear to be untrue
> or a misunderstanding for whatever reason. WMF legal may wish to
> clarify in their own voice as to whether they support the statement by
> the WMF on 17 February 2021, and whether it shall be enforced and
> when.
>
> Reminder of WMF previous statement:
> "... our Enterprise agreement with Google prevents Google from
> accessing the data for their own uses and requires them to inform the
> Foundation of any requests for data that they receive prior to
> disclosure, allowing us an opportunity to file a legal objection"
> "... we are purposefully not asking questions about sexual orientation
> or gender in any geographies where same-sex relations or identifying
> as transgender are criminalized"
>
> Could the WMF please meet their stated commitment for the protection
> of volunteers taking part in surveys and revoke surveys that fail to
> meet them, starting with the "Media Matching Screener Survey"?
>
> Links
> 1. Survey 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfT_lxMA_88rC8hZ9stzQ-S9b6VwZXcDNFjd4YmWrNHoAx3jQ/viewform
> 2. Privacy Statement
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Media_Matching_Screener_Survey_Privacy_Statement=history
> 3. 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Invitation_to_help_us_understand_how_you_work_with_media
> 4. https://policies.google.com/privacy
> 5. https://policies.google.com/terms
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 at 11:20, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> > A deeper look into the official response by the WMF raises some
> > questions about what it means in practice and whether a plain English
> > reading of the words is sufficient.
> >
> > Q1: WMF tested open source solutions
> > "[Surveys] [...] we have previously tested and attempted to use open
> > source solutions such as LimeSurvey"
> >
> > Can someone please provide the list of the multiple open source
> > solutions that the WMF has tested and the reports of why they were
> > each abandoned? This would be incredibly helpful for WMF Affiliates
> > who are doing exactly the same thing.
> >
> > Q2: Legal objections

[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy update

[Maggie Dennis]

Hello, all. :)

I’m Maggie Dennis ,
Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability
,
a division of the Legal Department at the Wikimedia Foundation. I oversee
the functions of  Community Development, Trust & Safety Policy, Trust &
Safety Operations, Human Rights protection, and, now, Movement Strategy.[1]

That last point is the purpose of my outreach. Many of you are aware that
our Chief of Staff, Ryan Merkley, has recently chosen to depart the
Foundation. Movement Strategy was housed with him. A long time Wikimedian
myself - user Moonriddengirl; pretty dormant right now but still very
interested! - I am delighted to step in to do all I can to keep the
momentum of this critical work going and to support however I can the
movement and the Foundation in meeting these strategic goals. Kaarel Vaidla
, with whom many of you
have connected during this process, will be part of my division, reporting
to Quim Gil .

The transition phase was wrapped up

last quarter, and it is time to start the implementation phase, looking at
which projects can move forward first.[2] Among these, the Movement Charter

is an essential tool for the implementation of the Strategy 2030, and it is
important to begin its draft.[3] There is also a lot of curiosity
around regional
and thematic hubs
,
and also many questions, and we are ready to support resolving some of
these.[4]

It has been my goal to do quarterly community meetings, but because of this
and other transitions, I’m a little behind. I had hoped to be able today to
invite you to meet me on Saturday, April 17, and I may be able to do that
in just a few days! If not that week, soon thereafter. There are some
details still being worked out. In that meeting, I will be available to
talk about all matters related to the work of Community Resilience &
Sustainability - which includes Movement Strategy and the Universal Code of
Conduct, among others. You can send your questions now (in any language) to
answ...@wikimedia.org. Please use the term “CR” in the subject line so
that it is identified as a question for me. :)  We will be inviting people
to join the meeting via multiple platforms to ask “live” as well. After the
event, we will release a video recording and a written summary of the
meeting. You can find details of our office hours past, including links to
videos and summaries, at the bottom of our Meta page
.[1
again!]

I’m very excited about all the implementation work ahead of us!  :)


Warm regards,


Maggie


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Global_Conversations

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Global_Conversations/Report/January

[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Follow-up_events/Cluster_D






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Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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