Hi Trevor,
Thanks for writing directly on the GenderGap list.
When I posted to this list expressing a serious concern that the grant was
limited to delivering tools with the target outcome of blocking more users,
the response from WMF Trustee Christophe Henner on 9 February was "Fae I'm
sorry but that is not true".
However in your summary you have unambiguously stated that improvement
outside of 'tools' is "outside the scope of the Newmark Foundation
grant".
Could you explain why the WMF board seems to have an expectation for how
the grant monies will be spent that contradicts your understanding as the
coal-face product manager? The words appear clear and unambiguous to my
eyes.
By the way, this email list has more potential for open and free
discussion, without the threat of a global ban. For this reason, your
suggestion of suppressing discussion here and forcing it to occur on Meta,
is not a healthy way to proceed for a number of long term WMF critical
voices on this list.
Thanks,
Fae
On 18 Feb 2017 03:07, "Trevor Bolliger" <tbolliger(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello, everyone. I’m Trevor, a new Product Manager here at the WMF and I’ll
be working on the Community Health Initiative.
If you’re looking to read press about this new initiative, I personally
think the two best articles are the Wikimedia Foundation’s blog post
published on January 26th 2017[1] and Craig Newmark’s blog post published
the following day.[2]
This specific Newmark Foundation grant will be used to staff a software
development team to research, design, and build tools for wiki contributors
and functionaries to detect, report, and evaluate incidents of harassment
and block offenders if appropriate. At this moment in time we believe all
four pillars — detection, reporting, evaluation, and blocking — are equally
important. This initiative is not just about blocking users.
If you’re looking for in-depth details, the best places to learn more are
the Meta page on the Community Health Initiative[3] (which is admittedly
still a work-in-progress) and the 14-page grant proposal.[4]
But ‘Tools’ is just part of the equation. An equally important part of this
initiative is will be to work with the communities to evaluate and improve
the conduct policies and dispute resolution processes. This is outside the
scope of this specific Newmark Foundation grant but is crucial to the goal
of reducing the frequency of harassment and complexity of resolving
harassment reports.
One of the challenges for this initiative will be crafting, committing to,
and executing an inclusive and open communication strategy that encourages
and fosters constructive participation into the process. Community input is
vital to this initiative. As we staff up this new team we’ll begin making
decisions on best to include everyone who wants to be involved. Until then,
I personally encourage you to discuss this initiative on its talk page.[5]
Thank you!
[1]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/26/community-health-initiative-grant/
[2]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-newmark/how-wikipedia-
is-fighting_b_14442772.html
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
Foundation_grant_proposal_-_Anti-Harassment_Tools_For_
Wikimedia_Projects_-_2017.pdf
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_health_initiative
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