Beautiful.
I heart community tech.
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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
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