Great group! This is such an important role, it's good to see serious people filling it.
On Jan 31, 2018 3:47 PM, "Karen Brown" <kbr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Apologies for the broken formatting in my original message! I forgot how > Mailman handles HTML in messages. Please see below for (hopefully) a more > legible version of the announcement: > ----------- > > Hello all, > > I am happy to announce the new and returning members of the 2018 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 2018 recently closed. The > Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and > insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. This year we > received applications representing the widest variety of languages, > projects, and regions I’ve seen since I started working with the committee > three years ago. > > Given the increasing caseload OC has been handing year over year, we have > decided to take advantage of the opportunity the diverse candidate pool > afforded us and expand the committee by one seat; this year’s OC will > consist of eight, rather than seven, members, with a two-member advisory > team who will guide the new commission. > > I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2018 OC. First, the *new > members* are: > > *Billinghurst* > Billinghurst (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Billinghurst>) is a > long-term Metapedian/Wikimedian who served as a steward from 2012 to 2016 > and still serves as a global sysop. He considers his home wiki to be the > English Wikisource where he's performed over 260,000 edits and focuses on > transcribing biographical reference data from the 19th and early 20thC. In > addition, however, to serving as a local administrator on Wikisource he > also holds the sysop hat on Commons, Meta and the English Wikipedia racking > up almost 700,000 edits across the projects with almost a million edits > when you count his bot. He claims to still have a bit of wisdom and > knowledge to give. > > *Jamie Tubers* > Sam, who edits as Jamie Tubers (< > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamie_Tubers>), joined the English > language Wikipedia community in 2011 and has over the years expanded his > activities into a wide range of movement activities including co-founding > the Wikimedia user group Nigeria and helping to organize events like Wiki > Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women. He is dedicated to correcting our > content gaps and biases related to Africa and raising awareness of the > projects on the continent. > > *Dyolf77* > Habib (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dyolf77>) started editing in > 2010 and has been heavily engaged in community affairs, both onwiki and as > part of user groups, for years. A native of Tunisia, he has been a > free-culture advocate on a wide range of issues in and beyond the movement. > Onwiki, you can mainly find him helping out on Commons, where he is a > sysop, as well as the Arabic and French language editions of Wikipedia. > > *Saileshpat* > Saileshpat (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Saileshpat>) started > editing Wikipedia in 2012 and soon became deeply involved in the Odia > community. He has helped organize outreach events and worked to spread > awareness in his region. In addition he was one of the co-organizers of > WikiConference India 2016. Saileshpat has helped in a content relicensing > process, where the Government of Odisha decided to release content under > Creative Commons licenses. Online he is mainly active on the Odia Wikipedia > and Commons. > > *Elmacenderesi* > Elmacenderesi (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elmacenderesi>) has > been working on Wikimedia projects since 2007, primarily on the Turkish > Wikipedia. There, he has been a CheckUser and a Bureaucrat since 2008 and > an Oversighter since 2011. He is also a member of Wikimedia OTRS and serves > as a global outreach coordinator, working with academic institutions and > GLAMs, for The Wikipedia Library. > > *Teles* > Lucas (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Teles>) became a Wikipedian > in > 2007 and started to engage with CheckUser rights in 2009, when he became a > local CU on the Portuguese Wikipedia. He held both Oversight and Checkuser > rights on Ptwiki between 2015 and 2017, when his term with the rights > expired. He is currently an administrator on Commons. His traditional main > focus has been on anti-vandalism work. In 2012, the global community > elected him as a steward, a position he has held since. > > In addition, experienced OC members Lankiveil and Góngora will be > *returning > as members of the Ombuds Commission*: > > *Lankiveil* > Lankiveil (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lankiveil>) is a > long-term > user, admin, and oversighter on the English Wikipedia, having made his > first edits in 2004. He served on the Ombuds Commission in 2017, and is > also an OTRS volunteer. He also sometimes edits at Irish Wikipedia, and > Wikidata. He is a native speaker of Australian English and is a member of > Wikimedia Australia. > > *Góngora* > Góngora, J. Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff, (< > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G%C3%B3ngora>) 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 from 2010 until 2017, where he is > also a CheckUser. He was a member of the Spanish Arbitration Committee in > 2008, before it was dismantled. He was a board member of Wikimedia España > in 2011. He is currently a member of both Wikimedia España and Wikimedia > Norge. > > 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): > > *Pajz* > Pajz (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pajz>) has edited the Wikimedia > projects since 2005. He was a Wikipedia administrator between 2007 to 2016 > and is a member of the Volunteer Response Team. He served as one of the > OTRS administrators from 2013 to 2015, before being first appointed to the > Ombudsman Commission in 2016. > > *Krd* > Krd (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Krd>), who is primarily active > on German Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, and also serves at the Volunteer > Response Team as an agent and OTRS admin, and was a prior member of German > Wikipedia Arbitration Committee for more than three years. He joined the OC > in 2017. > > And finally, please join me in *thanking the following outgoing > volunteers*, > who have given substantially of their time to serve the commission: > > *Vogone* > Vogone (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. Vogone joined OC in 2017. > > *Richwales* > Richwales (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. Rich joined the OC in 2017. > > *Alan* > Alan (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. He joined the OC in > 2016. > > *Rubin16* > Rubin16 (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. He joined the OC in 2015. > > *Polimerek* > Polimerek (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. > > --- > > I'd also like to offer a huge “thank you” to those returning and those > coming aboard for the first time, as well as to all those applied. The > applications we received this year showed us an extremely able group of > volunteers across a diverse array of languages and projects, and while this > appointed mix of users may best serve the need for this year, I hope that > those who applied and were not appointed will consider applying again in > future years. > > Yours, > Karen Brown > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Karen Brown <kbr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > *Hello all,* > > > [...] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
