Wikimedia-l June 2022

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The first month of Wiki Loves Earth 2022! 💛🌍 Q&A announcement

by Iryna Yehiazarova

Dear all, *The first month of the Wiki Loves Earth international photo contest devoted to nature heritage, May, has passed!* Let's look at the results: * 12 countries had their local contest this month, * more than 17 thousand photos were uploaded during this period, * and 2 more months are ahead! Today 13 more countries/regions have started their local competitions, check them out in the list <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022/Participat…>. Are you interested in joining WLE by organising your local contest? There is still time to run it in June or July. Do you have any questions about this process? *The international Wiki Loves Earth team will answer your questions and tell you all the details you want to know about WLE during our online Q&A tomorrow!* ⏱️ When: June 2nd at 15 pm (UTC), the event will last about 1 hour. 💻 Meeting link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81125659103?pwd=YlpLdlV3ZzZ5dUZFQmtxR0pQNTdEdz09 Meeting ID: 811 2565 9103 Passcode: wle22 We are also very pleased to share that we now have* lists of protected areas for 192 countries *which allows more countries to take part in Wiki Loves Earth! The lists are collated by the United Nations Environment Programme through their Protected Planet project. Our collegues from Wikimedia Sweden have provided a table with lists of sites for each country and instructions on how to download them here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022/Lists>. If you have any questions or suggestions for the international team, please contact us at wle-team(a)wikimedia.org.ua. Best wishes, Iryna Yehiazarova Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2022 our website <https://wikilovesearth.org/> | page on Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2022> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/interwle> Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesearth/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiLovesEarth>

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A thought on community global bans, inspired by a WMF office action

by Maggie Dennis

Hello all, My name is Maggie Dennis, and I am the Vice President of the Community Resilience and Sustainability group at the Wikimedia Foundation. Among the teams I oversee is the Trust & Safety <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety> unit. This team ensures that our projects are compliant with applicable law and also explores ways of keeping the Wikimedia community safe and works to minimize exposure to harm for volunteer and reader communities. I’m reaching out today to discuss a potential gap in volunteer community policy that my teams observed while evaluating and acting on a Trust & Safety investigation. We wanted to bring this up in case volunteer community members would like to consider if this is indeed a concern that you wish to address. Before getting to that, let me give you a little context on the case. As many of you know, we are not usually able to talk about office actions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_actions> due to legal limitations. However, I am able to speak a little more to this situation since the majority of the information around this case is already public. Today, the Foundation issued four global bans and three conduct warnings following an investigation into the activities of individuals found to be linked to the “WikiZédia” network. Based on our investigation, we concluded that this network attempted to use Wikimedia platforms for a targeted disinformation campaign engineered to influence the outcome of a national election. The banned users’ actions, which took place over an eight-month period until their community-backed blocks in February 2022, violated several of our Terms of Use, which resulted in the Foundation’s office action. Many of our projects have excellent policies and systems in place to handle such situations. Certainly French Wikipedia was on top of this. We greatly admire and appreciate the leadership of community members in identifying and confronting this situation locally. Wikimedians who work directly with content are often the first to see evidence of such campaigns, and there are many volunteers with much experience in identifying problem behaviours and stopping them. By the time Trust & Safety was asked to investigate by some of those volunteers, much of the work on the local level had already been done. However, one of the questions Trust & Safety asks itself in any case investigation (disinformation or behavioral) is whether appropriate community options exist that meet the needs of the movement and community members across it. In this case, we wondered if the current community processes support cases where individuals are behaving in ways that suggest they will never be good faith contributors on any project. To go more into depth on what I mean: It is not uncommon for users who create problems on one project to move to another, and for some communities it is even regarded as a potential path to rehabilitation. Community applied global bans are, under the existing policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bans>, “exclusively applied where multiple independent communities have previously elected to ban a user for a pattern of abuse.” (emphasis in original) If an individual is here as part of a concerted group effort to undermine our very mission, should it be easier for community members to assess global banning before they carry that behavior from one project to another? Foundation policies do permit banning individuals for behavior on one project and sometimes require it, especially where Terms of Use violations are egregious and threats of or acts of violence are involved. This is a gap where we can step in. Our goal is to support communities where we are needed and where we can. However, we wanted to call out the question of whether community global bans should be allowed in cases where the behavior is severe but limited to one project, in case volunteer community members thought it worth discussing the existing community ban policy. Especially in cases of disinformation , these are not always the kinds of situations governed by our Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC), which speaks to the way users treat each other but not the content. If there is a desire for the Foundation to support a conversation about making such a change to community global ban policy, I hope we would be able to do so in the near future, as our Trust & Safety Policy team is dedicated to supporting the evolution of community policy as well as Foundation policy. However, I’m not suggesting that the Foundation needs to be involved at all. Trust & Safety Policy is a small team, currently very busy with the UCoC, and if they are not needed, there is no reason that this conversation can’t happen spontaneously. We will support if needed, but really just wanted to bring this question up for your consideration. In this case, again, we do want to thank the French Wikipedia contributors who protected their communities and our collective readers by identifying and addressing the issue first as well as bringing the matter to us. We encourage those who feel unsafe on Wikimedia projects to use local community processes or, absent such, to contact the Wikimedia Foundation for assistance. The Foundation and the community will work, together or in parallel, to enhance the safety of all users whenever necessary with whatever means we can. To contact the Trust & Safety team about a safety issue, you can write to ca(a)wikimedia.org. To contact the Trust & Safety Disinformation team about a specific disinformation issue, you can write to drt(a)wikimedia.org. Best regards, Maggie -- Maggie Dennis She/her/hers Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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Wikimania 2022 Scholarships Applications Reminder

by Antoni Mtavangu

Hi Wikimedians! I hope you are doing well. I am writing to kindly remind you all that the *Wikimania 2022 scholarship application is closing* on* Friday, *3rd June 2022. Therefore we encourage all who want to apply to go for it within this little remaining time. For more info you can visit the Wikimania 2022 Scholarships page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>, or you may want to visit/re-visit the Wikimania 2022 Scholarships Diff post <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/09/wikimania-2022-grants-and-program-sub…> . Thank you and we can’t wait to meet you all soon! On behalf of Wikimania 2022 COT <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/02/24/announcing-the-wikimania-2022-core-or…> , Antoni Mtavangu *"By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able to join us." *

2 years

[Reminder] Your Hackathon feedback is wanted (until May 29th)

by Andre Klapper

Hi, this is a friendly reminder that we would love to hear from you about your experience at last weekend's Hackathon. Please fill in the survey until Sunday, May 29th and help us improve. See the links below. Thanks a lot in advance! andre -------- Quoted Message -------- From: Haley Lepp Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 11:13:39 -0700 On behalf of the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon Committee, we would like to thank you for coming to the Wikimedia Hackathon! Please consider giving us feedback on the Hackathon and your suggestions for improvement. There are two ways to give feedback: 1. Fill out the Wikimedia Hackathon Survey <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cGbCKj4xyP0H3wi>. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Post-Event_Survey… >. The survey will remain open until May 29, 2022. 2. If you would like to share feedback but do not wish to take the Qualtrics survey, you can leave feedback on the Etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022_Feedback >. Finally, check out the badges <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/How_to#Joining_a_se… > the committee made. You can put them on your userpages to show your participation. Thank you again for joining us! It was so much fun to meet everyone and hack together. See you at the Wikimania Hackathon in August! Haley, on behalf of the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon Team -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list -- wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-ambassadors-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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