Beautiful. I heart community tech. /a On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Danny and Patrick, > > Thank you for the update and the great news about the new grant that will > enable an accelerated time table to do the work around community health. > > And also thank you to Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist > Charitable Fund for supporting this important work. > > 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 Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > We have an update on the community health initiative mentioned following > > the Board's Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe > > Spaces.[1] > > > > As Patrick Earley from the Support and Safety team noted on Wikimedia-l > > last month[2], we’ve been developing a community health initiative to > help > > address the harassment issues discussed in the Board's statement. We > > believe an important aspect of our efforts to combat harassment is > > providing the volunteer community with better tools to more effectively > > respond to instances of harassment as they arise. > > > > We’re excited to announce that the Craig Newmark Foundation and > craigslist > > Charitable Fund have agreed to provide initial funding to help the > > Wikimedia Foundation begin this work. The two seed restricted grants, > > collectively a gift of $500,000, will enable the Foundation to scale up > our > > support of these efforts and provide us with the resources to do it > right. > > > > In preparing for this work, we’ve been discussing issues with the current > > tools and processes with active administrators and functionaries. These > > discussions have resulted in requested improvements in several key areas > > where admins and functionaries see immediate needs—better reporting > systems > > for volunteers, smarter ways to detect and address problems early, and > > improved tools and workflows related to the blocking process. > > > > In the coming months, the Community Tech team, working with the Support > and > > Safety team, will be expanding their work on development of these tools. > > The long-term goal for this effort is to build up the toolbox that > > volunteers can use to combat harassment and other disruptive behavior on > > our wikis. > > > > Specifically, there are four areas where we think new tools will help: > > > > 1. Detection - Improve our detection and prevention tools, like > > AbuseFilter, and build new features to detect aggressive behavior. > > > > 2. Reporting - Design ways to report harassment that are less chaotic, > more > > respectful of privacy, and less stressful than the current workflow. > > > > 3. Evaluating - Offer admins tools that make evaluating harassment > reports > > easier, so that they can make good decisions. > > > > 4. Blocking - When someone is blocked from the site, we can make it more > > difficult for them to return under a different name or IP address. > > > > Of course, these improvements need to be made with the participation and > > support of the volunteers who will be using the tools. We don't want to > > create new systems and workflows that create more work for an already > > overburdened team of wiki administrators. We want to make these tasks > less > > grueling and able to more consistently produce effective outcomes. > > > > Work in other areas - such as project policies and better training for > > administrators and functionaries - still needs to be done in order to > > comprehensively tackle the overall issue of harassment and harmful > behavior > > on the projects. However, we believe that improving and building better > > tools for volunteers currently most engaged in this effort is a necessary > > first step. > > > > We welcome your feedback on this approach, and invite you to join us in > > thanking Craig and his charitable organizations for their support of this > > initiative! > > > > We’ll be sharing regular updates about the progress of this work in the > > coming months. If you have any questions in the meantime, please reach > out > > to us on the talk page of the Meta-Wiki page where you can find more > > information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative > > > > You can also find more details about this announcement in this blog post: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/26/community-health-initiative-grant > > > > Danny Horn (Product Manager, Community Tech) and Patrick Earley (Manager, > > Support & Safety) > > > > [1] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > > Board_noticeboard/November_2016_-_Statement_on_Healthy_ > Community_Culture,_ > > Inclusivity,_and_Safe_Spaces > > > > [2] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016- > > December/085668.html > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller Anna Stillwell Director of Culture Wikimedia Foundation 415.806.1536 *www.wikimediafoundation.org <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
