+1, very good news.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]

p.s. As an aside, the role of an "ombudsman" has come up in two other
contexts (relating to actions of WMF personnel, rather than volunteer
functionaries) on the Transparency Gap page started a couple weeks ago:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_transparency_gap

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Philippe Beaudette <phili...@beaudette.me>
wrote:

> This is excellent news, and has been years in the making.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dariusz. As not all members of the Ombudsman Commission subscribe
> > this list, I forwarded this to them :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > 2016-01-14 15:58 GMT+01:00 Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl>:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and
> > > discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope
> > of
> > > our Ombudsman Commission, following the community consensus from a
> while
> > > back [1]
> > > <
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission
> > > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > The resolution was approved in November [2]
> > > <
> > >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
> > > >
> > > and
> > > has been just published.
> > >
> > > As a former ombudsman, as well as an endorser of the proposal, I can
> say
> > > that while this may not be a huge thing, it still is important and
> will,
> > > hopefully, make our work easier :)
> > >
> > > best,
> > >
> > > dj
> > >
> > > The Ombudsman Commission is currently the body which investigates
> > > complaints about violations of the privacy and access to nonpublic
> > > information policies established by Wikimedia Foundation and which
> apply
> > to
> > > all Wikimedia wiki projects. The Ombudsman Commission was appointed on
> 23
> > > July 2006 by the Wikimedia Foundation Board with the generally narrow
> > scope
> > > of investigating potential privacy violations performed by users having
> > > access to the CheckUser interface (namely CheckUsers and Stewards).
> > >
> > > Over time, the Ombudsman Commission has received a growing number of
> > > requests to investigate cases which are not clearly complaints about
> > > individual CheckUser actions but may be potential or real violations of
> > the
> > > privacy policy. Following the 2006 Board Resolution's definition of the
> > > scope, the Ombudsman Commission has consistently rejected these
> requests,
> > > and the applicants remain unsatisfied as there is no other body in the
> > > Wikimedia movement tasked to resolve these problems. Therefore, the
> > members
> > > of Ombudsman Commission, with help of the WMF legal team, asked the WMF
> > > Board to redefine the scope of the Ombudsman Commission.
> > > The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has accepted the community's
> > > consensus and has authorized an expansion of the Ombudsman Commission's
> > > scope to include two more tasks:
> > > To review, upon request, local project CheckUser and Oversight policies
> > to
> > > ensure that they do not violate the respective global policies.
> > >
> > > To investigate, upon request, potential violations of the appropriate
> > > global policies by local CheckUsers and Oversighters.
> > >
> > > Investigation of potential violations of local policies which are not
> > > violations of the global polices remain the responsibility of the local
> > > project and not within the scope of the Ombudsman Commission at this
> > time.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Commission
> > > [2]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_Ombudsman_Commission
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