On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 at 10:32, Charles Matthews
wrote:
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> That ANI report makes it clear enough that this was a spree resolved by
> blocking an IP address. Nothing is said there about any actual deletions. It
> would be helpful if it could be confirmed that nothing was actually deleted
> on grou
Hi all
This is a nuanced issue and as ever, the press has failed to capture that
nuance. I received a call from the Sunday Telegraph on Saturday evening and
had less than an hour to draft, agree and send a quote on behalf of
Wikimedia UK. However within a short statement it's impossible to convey
> On 09 December 2019 at 11:47 Fæ wrote:
> That the press has picked up on this story, could be seen as an
> opportunity to embrace the criticism and to do more to make the
> environment less hostile for committed contributors like Jess.
From Jess:
https://twitter.com/jesswade/status/120358
We will be releasing a short film before Christmas which looks at what the
Wikimedia community in the UK has been doing in the past few years to
address the Gender Gap, and I hope that this will go some way to
communicating what we have achieved as a community and a local chapter.
John Lubbock
Co
Thanks for the sources Charles.
Having previously chatted with Jess during an LGBT+ event about the
Wikipedia "experience", it is entirely fair and factual to say that
the environment is hostile. When running and planning newbie events,
we have to be honest about how deeply unpleasant things are p
A notability tagging incident on English Wikipedia some ten days ago is receiving ongoing media attention. It would be a good idea to get the facts straight.The rather curt onwiki discussion is athttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1024#IP_mass_tagg
