Unofficial Wikipedia Community Health blog

Cabals are established groups of cooperating editors or administrators with a common point-of-view. These groups can efficiently influence and bias decisions, and attack editors with different views. [Read More]

New video by Wikimedia Indonesia on YouTube

Participate in the Community conversation

• 10 Aug 2019 – Recommendations for structural changes in our movement
  • Community Health WG recommendations:
    • Rules and regulations, decision making processes and leadership
  • Diversity WG recommendations:
    
    • Terms of Use and Licensing Policy
      
    • Code of Conduct - planning phase, not the actual CoC
      
    • Adopting Body Quotas for All Governing Bodies
      
    • Content Diversity Metrics and Guidelines
      
• 13 Aug 2019 – Trust and Safety – office actions consultation
  • Community consultation on partial and temporary office actions
• April-July 2019 – Community health initiative
  • User reporting system consultation

Research projects

• 2014 – Communicating on Wikipedia while female
• 2015 – Community health
• 2015 – Harassment survey - Report - Source
• 2015 – Online harassment resource guide
• 2016 – Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces
• September 2017 – Research on dispute resolution and harassment
  • Research about Administrators’ Noticeboard Incidents - results
  • Administrator confidence survey - results
• February 2018 – Wikihounding and Machine Learning Analysis
• November 2018 – Reporting systems on English Wikipedia (pdf) – Anti-Harassment Tools Team

Consultations

• 2015 – Harassment consultation
• 2016 – Harassment workshop
• April-May 2019 – Friendly space policy consultation
• April-July 2019 – User reporting system consultation

Strategic direction

• Wikimedia movement‎ | 2017 | Direction
• Wikimedia movement‎ | 2018-2020 | Direction

“Well, it didn't take long, but it has now become abundantly clear that the sound and fury that characterized the FRAMBAN controversy, was fake news.” [Read More]

“The current discussion at Arbitration Committee Noticeboard regarding Ritchie333 and Praxidicae shows how totally out of sync ArbCom is, and makes me fear for what I may expect.” [Read More]

“Anonymised evidence was sent to Fram on 18 August. ... It is reasonable to allow him up to a week to comment before opening the workshop, however, if he responds sooner, we would be able to open the workshop sooner.” The proposed decision will be posted in public by 7 September. [Read More]

Two weeks to submit evidence before 7 August 2019 [Read More]

The Arbitration Committee admits failing to handle civility and harassment complaints, but still asks the Foundation, to leave these issues to them. [Read More]

Comments regarding community health and the high-standard behavior expected from administrators. [Read More]

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