[Wikimedia-l] Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

[Cassie Casares]

Hello everyone,

The Community Development team
 is pleased to
announce the courses that were delivered during the WikiLearn Pilot
 are now available for
self-guided study on the new WikiLearn platform ,
based on the free software Open edX.

Open edX

is a free software learning management system that was started in 2012, and
is developed in Python using the Django framework.

The platform will host courses developed by Wikimedia Foundation teams on a
variety of topics relevant to doing Wikimedia work. The intended audience
of the platform is Wikimedia contributors of all kinds, and all you need to
access the platform is your existing Wikimedia account. As we continue to
evolve some governance mechanisms for the platform, it will  become open
for contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.

You can access the platform at learn.wiki  

The courses currently available from the Community Development team are:


   1.

   Introduction to Building Partnerships - This course will provide an
   in-depth curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and
   organizational partnerships within the movement and with external partners.



   1.

   Addressing Harassment Online - This short, introductory course will
   focus on developing skills that will help volunteers empathetically respond
   to online harassment.


These courses are self-paced and graded by the original instructors of the
live course. A computer graded version of these courses will be available
shortly. The current courses are published in English with potential
translation possible in FY 22-23


Please note that the self-paced/human-graded format will return marked
assignments on a bi-weekly/monthly basis depending on capacity.

Each course has been adapted from its original live format to be suitable
for self-paced study. The Identifying and Addressing Harassment course was
authored and taught by Simona Ramkisson
.  The Introduction
to Partnership Building course was authored and taught by Asaf Bartov
.

All Wikimedians with an active Wikimedia account can login to the WikiLearn
platform using their Wikimedia identity (OAuth) without needing a separate
account.

If you have any questions or concerns about the courses or the learning
management system Open edX
,
please email the Community Development team at comdevt...@wikimedia.org

Thank you,

The Community Development Team

Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

[Samuel Klein]

This is beautiful.  Nice to see Open edX in use.
Feels like incentive to package a range of workshops and materials up in a
reusable and discoverable way!  Open to WikiEdu + other community courses
also?

SJ

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:25 PM Cassie Casares 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The Community Development team
>  is pleased to
> announce the courses that were delivered during the WikiLearn Pilot
>  are now available for
> self-guided study on the new WikiLearn platform ,
> based on the free software Open edX.
> 
> Open edX
> 
> is a free software learning management system that was started in 2012, and
> is developed in Python using the Django framework.
>
> The platform will host courses developed by Wikimedia Foundation teams on
> a variety of topics relevant to doing Wikimedia work. The intended audience
> of the platform is Wikimedia contributors of all kinds, and all you need to
> access the platform is your existing Wikimedia account. As we continue to
> evolve some governance mechanisms for the platform, it will  become open
> for contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.
>
> You can access the platform at learn.wiki  
>
> The courses currently available from the Community Development team are:
>
>
>1.
>
>Introduction to Building Partnerships - This course will provide an
>in-depth curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and
>organizational partnerships within the movement and with external partners.
>
>
>
>1.
>
>Addressing Harassment Online - This short, introductory course will
>focus on developing skills that will help volunteers empathetically respond
>to online harassment.
>
>
> These courses are self-paced and graded by the original instructors of the
> live course. A computer graded version of these courses will be available
> shortly. The current courses are published in English with potential
> translation possible in FY 22-23
>
>
> Please note that the self-paced/human-graded format will return marked
> assignments on a bi-weekly/monthly basis depending on capacity.
>
> Each course has been adapted from its original live format to be suitable
> for self-paced study. The Identifying and Addressing Harassment course
> was authored and taught by Simona Ramkisson
> .  The Introduction
> to Partnership Building course was authored and taught by Asaf Bartov
> .
>
> All Wikimedians with an active Wikimedia account can login to the
> WikiLearn platform using their Wikimedia identity (OAuth) without needing a
> separate account.
>
> If you have any questions or concerns about the courses or the learning
> management system Open edX
> ,
> please email the Community Development team at comdevt...@wikimedia.org
>
> Thank you,
>
> The Community Development Team
>
> Cassie Casares
> Program Support Associate
> Community Development
> Wikimedia Foundation
> ccasa...@wikimedia.org
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the members of the Leadership Development Working Group!

[Cassie Casares]

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Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce the members of the Leadership Development
Working Group
.
After receiving more than 60 applications, a panel of community members (4)
and Wikimedia Foundation staff (2) conducted an anonymous review. Fifteen
members were selected for the working group.

Diversity and representation were important considerations. We are happy to
share that the group has representatives from all 8 regions [1] (two from
each region, except US + Canada have one). The group size has expanded from
12 to 15 members to increase diversity. Together, the group members speak
at least 17 languages. Members hold different roles in the movement,
including: a meta-organizer, a community-elected Steward, a past Affiliate
executive director, and a jack-of-all-trades volunteer. The members range
in their years in the movement, from newer community members to community
members with more than 15 years of experience. Regarding gender, we have 7
women, 6 men, 1 non-binary and gender-fluid person, and 1 preferred not to
identify their gender.

Without further ado, let us introduce you to the members of the Leadership
Development Working Group:


   -

   Vermont 

Hello! I go by Vermont on Wikimedia projects. I'm a Wikimedia Steward,
admin and CheckUser on Meta-Wiki and the Simple English Wikipedia, and a
Merchandise Giveaways coordinator. I've joined this group in the interest
of supporting community and leadership development from a practical
standpoint, and promoting editor retention and development in line with
current movement priorities and Wikimedia's mission.


   -

   Flavia Doria (XenoF )

Hi, I'm Flavia Doria (she/her), I'm Brazilian, living in Portugal since
2016, and I've been involved with the Wikimedia Movement since early 2020.
I'm currently working as Ambassador of the Portuguese-speaking community
for the Wikimedia Foundation. As a volunteer I'm part of the Wikipedia
group Wiki Editoras Lx, the first and perhaps only Lusophone group composed
only by women and non-binary people who edit within the gender theme. In my
group I work in several fronts such as training new users, organizing
events and promoting debate within the community. From the beginning, I
quickly became more involved in issues related to decision-making within
the Movement and the importance of including marginalized groups from our
community in these debates and how this inclusion is key to keeping
Wikimedia projects relevant to society.

I am also a communicologist and journalist, I have a special interest in
the social and political aspect of the Information and Communications
Technology debate, and have recently published an academic paper on gender
and Wikipedia and hope to do so more often.

Now as a member of the Leadership Development Working Group, I hope that we
can collectively learn how to use our resources to promote more autonomy
for our communities, especially those who fall outside of our standard
average user profile. I am excited to meet more people interested in this
debate and I look forward to working with all of you!


   -

   Francesc Fort (TaronjaSatsuma
   )

I'm Francesc, a Catalan-language editor from València. I've been a very
active editor for a

long time, but I haven't been that much involved with international
communities until 2019.

I'm very excited on discovering and learning new things about Wikipedia.


   -

   Isaac Olatunde (T Cells )

I am a food safety specialist and a volunteer contributor to Wikipedia for
more than 8 years, building capacity for new editors, nurturing, and
helping new editors to grow in  Nigeria.

I co-founded the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, (now a charitable
organization in Nigeria) to support volunteers and continue to provide both
technical and administrative support for the volunteers.

During the peak of the COVID-19, Isaac led an initiative in partnership
with the Moleskine Foundation to create Wikipedia articles relating to
COVID-19 in local languages and produced a video in Yorùbà language to
educate the people with little or no education on how to avoid being
infected with COVID-19 and to highlight how Wikipedia is helping to fight
the pandemic. The video featured notable film actors in Nigeria.

I was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in
2020.

Having realized that millions of articles on Wikipedia are lacking photos
to illustrate them, I launched an international campaign called "Wikiped

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase May 18

[Emily Lescak]

Hello everyone,

The next Research Showcase, *Gaps and Biases in Wikipedia*, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, May 18, at 9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. View your local
time here .

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8FlunZ0mH4

You are welcome to ask questions via YouTube chat or on IRC at
#wikimedia-research.

This month's presentations:

Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia

By Francesca Tripodi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

For the last five decades, sociologists have argued that gender is one of
the most pervasive and insidious forms of inequality. Research demonstrates
how these inequalities persist on Wikipedia - arguably the largest
encyclopedic reference in existence. Roughly eighty percent of Wikipedia's
editors are men and pages about women and women's interests are
underrepresented. English language Wikipedia contains more than 1.5 million
biographies about notable writers, inventors, and academics, but less than
nineteen percent of these biographies are about women. To try and improve
these statistics, activists host “edit-a-thons” to increase the visibility
of notable women. While this strategy helps create several biographies
previously inexistent, it fails to address a more inconspicuous form of
gender exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic observations, interviews, and
quantitative analysis of web-scraped metadata this talk demonstrates that
women’s biographies are more frequently considered non-notable and
nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies. This disproportionate
rate is another dimension of gender inequality on Wikipedia previously
unexplored by social scientists and provides broader insights into how
women’s achievements are (under)valued in society.

Controlled Analyses of Social Biases in Wikipedia Bios

By Yulia Tsvetkov (University of Washington)

Social biases on Wikipedia could greatly influence public opinion.
Wikipedia is also a popular source of training data for NLP models, and
subtle biases in Wikipedia narratives are liable to be amplified in
downstream NLP models. In this talk I'll present two approaches to
unveiling social biases in how people are described on Wikipedia, across
demographic attributes and across languages. First, I'll present a
methodology that isolates dimensions of interest (e.g., gender), from other
attributes (e.g., occupation). This methodology allows us to quantify
systemic differences in coverage of different genders and races, while
controlling for confounding factors. Next, I'll show an NLP case study that
uses this methodology in combination with people-centric sentiment analysis
to identify disparities in Wikipedia bios of members of the LGBTQIA+
community across three languages: English, Russian, and Spanish. Our
results surface cultural differences in narratives and signs of social
biases. Practically, these methods can be used to automatically identify
Wikipedia articles for further manual analysis—articles that might contain
content gaps or an imbalanced representation of particular social groups.


You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase


Emily, on behalf of the Research team

-- 
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

[Asaf Bartov]

Yes, the platform is intended to serve the entire Wikimedia movement!

We plan to pilot with some trusted affiliates first, to iron out kinks and
to take our time co-creating governance structures for the platform with
the broader community.  Once those are in place, authoring on the platform
would become available to all Wikimedians.

Cheers,

   A.

Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)

Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Wikimedia Foundation 

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org


On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 9:20 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> This is beautiful.  Nice to see Open edX in use.
> Feels like incentive to package a range of workshops and materials up in a
> reusable and discoverable way!  Open to WikiEdu + other community courses
> also?
>
> SJ
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:25 PM Cassie Casares 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> The Community Development team
>>  is pleased to
>> announce the courses that were delivered during the WikiLearn Pilot
>>  are now available for
>> self-guided study on the new WikiLearn platform ,
>> based on the free software Open edX.
>> 
>> Open edX
>> 
>> is a free software learning management system that was started in 2012, and
>> is developed in Python using the Django framework.
>>
>> The platform will host courses developed by Wikimedia Foundation teams on
>> a variety of topics relevant to doing Wikimedia work. The intended audience
>> of the platform is Wikimedia contributors of all kinds, and all you need to
>> access the platform is your existing Wikimedia account. As we continue
>> to evolve some governance mechanisms for the platform, it will  become open
>> for contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.
>>
>> You can access the platform at learn.wiki  
>>
>> The courses currently available from the Community Development team are:
>>
>>
>>1.
>>
>>Introduction to Building Partnerships - This course will provide an
>>in-depth curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and
>>organizational partnerships within the movement and with external 
>> partners.
>>
>>
>>
>>1.
>>
>>Addressing Harassment Online - This short, introductory course will
>>focus on developing skills that will help volunteers empathetically 
>> respond
>>to online harassment.
>>
>>
>> These courses are self-paced and graded by the original instructors of
>> the live course. A computer graded version of these courses will be
>> available shortly. The current courses are published in English with
>> potential translation possible in FY 22-23
>>
>>
>> Please note that the self-paced/human-graded format will return marked
>> assignments on a bi-weekly/monthly basis depending on capacity.
>>
>> Each course has been adapted from its original live format to be suitable
>> for self-paced study. The Identifying and Addressing Harassment course
>> was authored and taught by Simona Ramkisson
>> .  The Introduction
>> to Partnership Building course was authored and taught by Asaf Bartov
>> .
>>
>> All Wikimedians with an active Wikimedia account can login to the
>> WikiLearn platform using their Wikimedia identity (OAuth) without needing a
>> separate account.
>>
>> If you have any questions or concerns about the courses or the learning
>> management system Open edX
>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

[Niharika Kohli]

Hi Butch,

Thanks for your suggestions. On our end, the Wikimedia Foundation Product
department is currently undertaking stakeholder discussions in all the
areas you mentioned to understand the problem from all different
perspectives. As we go through this process we are also looking at
potential technical solutions that would reduce some of the pain points
that have been brought up both here and on the talk page. There are some
existing recommendations on this mailing list and the meta page that are
good starting points for these discussions.
We will be summarizing our findings and sharing them on this list and the
talk page once we have completed this process. If anyone has direct
feedback, my inbox is always open.

Thanks!



On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 9:59 PM  wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Let me suggest three things:
>
> 1. For Outreach events, campaigns, GLAM events that conduct new user
> training and editathons, the Foundation Programs Team (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team)
> should proactively coordinate with event organizers and/or foundation grant
> applicants and offer assistance to link them with administrators to grant
> IP exemptions or account creation / event organizer rights.
>
> 2. For WMF Movement Communications Team and Foundation Product Development
> Team to conduct stakeholder discussions (end users, event organizers,
> active editors) including this mailing list, talk pages, virtual / video
> conferences and come up with a thorough document summarizing the feedbacks.
> We should not end decisions on Talk pages and mailing list alone.
>
> 3. For the technology team & tech community to come up with an update on
> the 18 year old IP block policy that is target bad faith editors and
> balancing it with middle to low income communities (Africa, South and
> Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South America) with shared internet
> infrastructure such as mobile data/ school internet connections.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Butch
> Southeast Asia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

[H4CUSEG via Wikimedia-l]

If you're planning to iron out some kinks: here's a suggestion: In the 
introduction to the course it is claimed that victims of harassment "may even 
develop broad health issues that continue long-after their harassment has 
stopp​ed" that include (among other things) stomach ulcers. It is well know 
that the main causes of Peptic ulcer disease are the bacteria Helicobacter 
pylori, NSAIDs and tobacco smoking. Perpetuating the myth that stress causes, 
rather than plays a role in, the formation of stomach ulcers is unhelpful.

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--- Original Message ---
On Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 at 6:50 PM, Asaf Bartov  
wrote:

> Yes, the platform is intended to serve the entire Wikimedia movement!
>
> We plan to pilot with some trusted affiliates first, to iron out kinks and to 
> take our time co-creating governance structures for the platform with the 
> broader community. Once those are in place, authoring on the platform would 
> become available to all Wikimedians.
>
> Cheers,
>
> A.
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> [Wikimedia Foundation](https://wikimediafoundation.org/)
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum 
> of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 9:20 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> This is beautiful. Nice to see Open edX in use.
>> Feels like incentive to package a range of workshops and materials up in a 
>> reusable and discoverable way! Open to WikiEdu + other community courses 
>> also?
>>
>> SJ
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:25 PM Cassie Casares  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> The[Community Development 
>>> team](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development) is pleased to 
>>> announce the courses that were delivered during the [WikiLearn 
>>> Pilot](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn) are now available for 
>>> self-guided study on the new[WikiLearn platform](https://learn.wiki/), 
>>> based on the free software [Open 
>>> edX.](https://www.edx.org/?g_acctid=724-505-4034&g_campaign=gs-b2c-us-brand-core-roas&g_campaignid=16772388216&g_adgroupid=140810411408&g_adid=562435444795&g_keyword=edx&g_keywordid=kwd-89882436&g_network=g&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=gs-b2c-us-brand-core-roas&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=edx&hsa_acc=7245054034&hsa_cam=16772388216&hsa_grp=140810411408&hsa_ad=562435444795&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-89882436&hsa_kw=edx&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAjw9LSSBhBsEiwAKtf0n1bwsYmA8VKTTsJnwIR2_8Z_BQd6S1pQWgUItNyY-gI8bRSE27LgbBoCiQYQAvD_BwE)
>>>  Open 
>>> [edX](https://www.edx.org/?g_acctid=724-505-4034&g_campaign=gs-b2c-us-brand-core-roas&g_campaignid=16772388216&g_adgroupid=140810411408&g_adid=562435444795&g_keyword=edx&g_keywordid=kwd-89882436&g_network=g&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=gs-b2c-us-brand-core-roas&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=edx&hsa_acc=7245054034&hsa_cam=16772388216&hsa_grp=140810411408&hsa_ad=562435444795&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-89882436&hsa_kw=edx&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAjw9LSSBhBsEiwAKtf0n1bwsYmA8VKTTsJnwIR2_8Z_BQd6S1pQWgUItNyY-gI8bRSE27LgbBoCiQYQAvD_BwE)
>>>  is a free software learning management system that was started in 2012, 
>>> and is developed in Python using the Django framework.
>>>
>>> The platform will host courses developed by Wikimedia Foundation teams on a 
>>> variety of topics relevant to doing Wikimedia work. The intended audience 
>>> of the platform is Wikimedia contributors of all kinds, and all you need to 
>>> access the platform is your existing Wikimedia account. As we continue to 
>>> evolve some governance mechanisms for the platform, it will become open for 
>>> contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.
>>>
>>> You can access the platform at [learn.wiki](https://learn.wiki/)
>>>
>>> The courses currently available from the Community Development team are:
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> Introduction to Building Partnerships -This course will provide an in-depth 
>>> curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and organizational 
>>> partnerships within the movement and with external partners.
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> Addressing Harassment Online - This short, introductory course will focus 
>>> on developing skills that will help volunteers empathetically respond to 
>>> online harassment.
>>>
>>> These courses are self-paced and graded by the original instructors of the 
>>> live course. A computer graded version of these courses will be available 
>>> shortly. The current courses are published in English with potential 
>>> translation possible in FY 22-23
>>>
>>> Please note that the self-paced/human-graded format will return marked 
>>> assignments on a bi-weekly/monthly basis depending on capacity.
>>>
>>> Each course has been adapted from its original live format to be suitable 
>>> for self-paced study. The Identifying and Addressing Harassment course was 
>>>