Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2017-18 Ombuds Commission

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Congratulations all!


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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Sydney Poore  wrote:

> Congratulation to Vogone, Lankiveil, Góngora, Richwales, Krd for their
> appointment to Ombuds Commission, and to returning as members Pajz,Alan,
> Rubin16, Polimerek.
>
> And thank you to the outgoing members, NahidSultan, Taketa, Gnom, Huji, and
> Barras, for your service.
>
> I appreciate the time that you put in doing this important work.
>
> Warm regards,
> Sydney
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
> Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
> Co-founder WikiConference North America
> Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation,
> Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Karen Brown  wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > It is time to announce the new and returning members of the 2017
> Ombudsman
> > Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
> > about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
> > use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
> > Board of Trustees.
> >
> > [1]
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> > the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
> >
> > I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
> >
> > The application period for new commissioners for 2017 recently closed.
> The
> > Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> > insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
> >
> > As it has for the past few years, this year’s OC will consist of seven
> > members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new
> commission.
> >
> > I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2017 OC. First, the new
> > members are:
> >
> > Vogone
> >
> > User:Vogone has contributed to Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While
> > they began their involvement on the German Wikipedia, they quickly
> branched
> > out to Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the
> > first bureaucrat on the Wikidata project. Vogone has worked heavily
> > assisting our smaller projects as a global rollbacker, global sysop, and
> > member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. They have experience in
> > translation administration, both on Meta and translatewiki.net.  Vogone
> > has
> > shown a keen interest in the technical side of user privacy, including
> > contributing to MediaWiki software around edit suppression.
> >
> > Lankiveil
> >
> > Lankiveil is a long-term user, admin, and oversighter on the English
> > Wikipedia, having made his first edits in 2004.  He serves as a clerk to
> > the English Wikipedia Arbcom and as an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes
> > edits at Irish Wikipedia and Commons. He is a native speaker of
> Australian
> > English and is a member of Wikimedia Australia.
> >
> > Góngora
> >
> > Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff, who primarily edits Spanish
> > Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has been
> an
> > administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and an
> > administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia since 2009, where he is also a
> > CheckUser.  He was a member of the Spanish ArbCom in 2008, before it was
> > dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España in 2011. He is
> > currently a member of Wikimedia Norge.
> >
> > Richwales
> >
> > User:Richwales has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
> > administrator, oversighter, and sockpuppet investigation clerk on the
> > English Wikipedia. Richwales also served on the now-defunct Audit
> > subcommittee, which served a similar role to the Ombudsman Commission.
> >
> > Krd
> >
> > User:Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia
> > Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer response team as agent and OTRS
> > admin, and was a prior member of German Wikipedia Arbcom for more than
> > three years.
> >
> >
> > In addition, the following experienced OC members will be returning as
> > members
> > of the Ombuds Commission:
> >
> > Pajz
> >
> > User:Pajz is a Wikipedia editor. He was a Wikipedia administrator between
> > 2007 to 2016 and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS
> team").
> > He served as one of the OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before
> being
> > first appointed to the Ombudsman Commission in 2016.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > User:Alan has been a registered Wikimedian for more than three years, but
> > an anonymous editor since 2006, working primarily across Spanish language
> > projects. He is a global sysop and global rollbacker, an administrator on
> > Commons, as well as having been an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the
> past
> > he has served as an administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage.
> >
> > And the following experienced OC members will be returning as advisors to
> > the commission (this advisory role provides expertise when 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2017-18 Ombuds Commission

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulation to Vogone, Lankiveil, Góngora, Richwales, Krd for their
appointment to Ombuds Commission, and to returning as members Pajz,Alan,
Rubin16, Polimerek.

And thank you to the outgoing members, NahidSultan, Taketa, Gnom, Huji, and
Barras, for your service.

I appreciate the time that you put in doing this important work.

Warm regards,
Sydney

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
Co-founder WikiConference North America
Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation,
Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee





On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Karen Brown  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It is time to announce the new and returning members of the 2017 Ombudsman
> Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
> about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
> use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
> Board of Trustees.
>
> [1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_
> the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
>
> I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
>
> The application period for new commissioners for 2017 recently closed. The
> Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
> insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
>
> As it has for the past few years, this year’s OC will consist of seven
> members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission.
>
> I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2017 OC. First, the new
> members are:
>
> Vogone
>
> User:Vogone has contributed to Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While
> they began their involvement on the German Wikipedia, they quickly branched
> out to Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the
> first bureaucrat on the Wikidata project. Vogone has worked heavily
> assisting our smaller projects as a global rollbacker, global sysop, and
> member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. They have experience in
> translation administration, both on Meta and translatewiki.net.  Vogone
> has
> shown a keen interest in the technical side of user privacy, including
> contributing to MediaWiki software around edit suppression.
>
> Lankiveil
>
> Lankiveil is a long-term user, admin, and oversighter on the English
> Wikipedia, having made his first edits in 2004.  He serves as a clerk to
> the English Wikipedia Arbcom and as an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes
> edits at Irish Wikipedia and Commons. He is a native speaker of Australian
> English and is a member of Wikimedia Australia.
>
> Góngora
>
> Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff, who primarily edits Spanish
> Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has been an
> administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and an
> administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia since 2009, where he is also a
> CheckUser.  He was a member of the Spanish ArbCom in 2008, before it was
> dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España in 2011. He is
> currently a member of Wikimedia Norge.
>
> Richwales
>
> User:Richwales has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
> administrator, oversighter, and sockpuppet investigation clerk on the
> English Wikipedia. Richwales also served on the now-defunct Audit
> subcommittee, which served a similar role to the Ombudsman Commission.
>
> Krd
>
> User:Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia
> Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer response team as agent and OTRS
> admin, and was a prior member of German Wikipedia Arbcom for more than
> three years.
>
>
> In addition, the following experienced OC members will be returning as
> members
> of the Ombuds Commission:
>
> Pajz
>
> User:Pajz is a Wikipedia editor. He was a Wikipedia administrator between
> 2007 to 2016 and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS team").
> He served as one of the OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being
> first appointed to the Ombudsman Commission in 2016.
>
> Alan
>
> User:Alan has been a registered Wikimedian for more than three years, but
> an anonymous editor since 2006, working primarily across Spanish language
> projects. He is a global sysop and global rollbacker, an administrator on
> Commons, as well as having been an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past
> he has served as an administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage.
>
> And the following experienced OC members will be returning as advisors to
> the commission (this advisory role provides expertise when needed, but does
> not participate in all discussions):
>
> Rubin16
>
> User:Rubin16 primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
> bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration
> Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central
> Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin 

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2017-18 Ombuds Commission

[Karen Brown]

Hello all,

It is time to announce the new and returning members of the 2017 Ombudsman
Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints
about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the
use of CheckUser and Oversight[1] tools, on any Wikimedia project for the
Board of Trustees.

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission

I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)

The application period for new commissioners for 2017 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.

As it has for the past few years, this year’s OC will consist of seven
members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission.

I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2017 OC. First, the new
members are:

Vogone

User:Vogone has contributed to Wikimedia projects since early 2012. While
they began their involvement on the German Wikipedia, they quickly branched
out to Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikivoyage, and Wikiversity. They were the
first bureaucrat on the Wikidata project. Vogone has worked heavily
assisting our smaller projects as a global rollbacker, global sysop, and
member of the Small Wiki Monitoring Team. They have experience in
translation administration, both on Meta and translatewiki.net.  Vogone has
shown a keen interest in the technical side of user privacy, including
contributing to MediaWiki software around edit suppression.

Lankiveil

Lankiveil is a long-term user, admin, and oversighter on the English
Wikipedia, having made his first edits in 2004.  He serves as a clerk to
the English Wikipedia Arbcom and as an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes
edits at Irish Wikipedia and Commons. He is a native speaker of Australian
English and is a member of Wikimedia Australia.

Góngora

Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora Goloubintseff, who primarily edits Spanish
Wikipedia, Catalan Wikipedia and Norwegian bokmål Wikipedia. He has been an
administrator and bureaucrat on the Spanish Wikipedia since 2007, and an
administrator on the Catalan Wikipedia since 2009, where he is also a
CheckUser.  He was a member of the Spanish ArbCom in 2008, before it was
dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España in 2011. He is
currently a member of Wikimedia Norge.

Richwales

User:Richwales has been an active Wikimedian since 2005. He is an
administrator, oversighter, and sockpuppet investigation clerk on the
English Wikipedia. Richwales also served on the now-defunct Audit
subcommittee, which served a similar role to the Ombudsman Commission.

Krd

User:Krd, who is primarily active on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer response team as agent and OTRS
admin, and was a prior member of German Wikipedia Arbcom for more than
three years.


In addition, the following experienced OC members will be returning as members
of the Ombuds Commission:

Pajz

User:Pajz is a Wikipedia editor. He was a Wikipedia administrator between
2007 to 2016 and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team ("OTRS team").
He served as one of the OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being
first appointed to the Ombudsman Commission in 2016.

Alan

User:Alan has been a registered Wikimedian for more than three years, but
an anonymous editor since 2006, working primarily across Spanish language
projects. He is a global sysop and global rollbacker, an administrator on
Commons, as well as having been an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past
he has served as an administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage.

And the following experienced OC members will be returning as advisors to
the commission (this advisory role provides expertise when needed, but does
not participate in all discussions):

Rubin16

User:Rubin16 primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration
Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central
Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin on
Commons.) He is a member of Wikimedia Russia.

Polimerek

User:Polimerek primarily edits Polish Wikipedia (where he is an admin and
former arbitrator), Polish Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. He also serves
the Wikimedia movement as the president of Wikimedia Poland and on the
Grant Advisory Committee. He is a former Checkuser. Polimerek joined the OC
in 2014.

And finally, please join me in thanking the following *outgoing volunteers*,
who have given substantially of their time to serve the commission:

NahidSultan

User:NahidSultan has been volunteering on Wikimedia projects since 2012. He
is mostly active on Bengali Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Meta, where he
holds administrator rights. Besides these roles, he has also been part of
OTRS, a small wiki monitoring team member and a global administrator. Other
than