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Osama's 30th birthday – celebrated in jail

https://dco-tn.org/f/birthday-in-jail-saudi-wikipedian-osama-khalid-remains-unjustly

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/KMGS72HYAIZXIIFQH3RKFX2SDL7RSSLM/

TKTK

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m:Wikimedia_Foundation_Child_Rights_Impact_Assessment https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/01/17/protecting-youth-online-wikimedia-foundation-publishes-its-first-child-rights-impact-assessment/

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Chinese Wikipedia

According to an article in the German Kurier the Chinese Wikipedia will introduce probationary admins and an ArbCom.

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• The WikiProject Unreferenced Articles' is inviting signups for its February 2024 backlog drive, set to start on February 1st, to work on the currently over 112,000 articles without citations. At the time of writing, over 200 editors had already registered.
• New user-groups: The Affiliations Committee announced the approval of this month's newest Wikimedia movement affiliate, the TKTK.
• Milestones: The following Wikimedia projects reached milestones this week: TKTK
• Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Hunger strike (beginning 29 January 2024). Please be bold in helping improve this article!

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• Justice for Osama and Ziyad. Oltrepier (talk) 19:34, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

  +1. I just noticed he now has a biography: Osama Khalid. Andreas JN466 21:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

  +2 Sandizer (talk) 22:47, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

• "... at one independent affiliate event, the organization’s leaders brought in army members to do military style exercises with children, resulting in its suspension until new leadership was elected" -- Well then it wasn't independent, was it? Sandizer (talk) 22:47, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
• With regard to the report on child rights, I wonder what the Foundation could possibly do about this point (from the exec summary)

Risk: Exposure to harmful content (CRC 19)

A child may be exposed to unwelcome and inappropriate content on the platform. Content that may be classified as “harmful” on pages of Wikimedia projects include bloody or violent images (e.g., medical images), content detailing self-harm or eating disorders, hateful or racist speech, pornography, sexually explicit images, and child sexual abuse material. JMWt (talk) 08:35, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

There are some interesting and possible recommendations mentioned in the previous 2022 Human Rights Impact Assessment:

• Provide access to a geotargeted suicide prevention hotline at the top of the articles on Suicide Methods.
• Create child safeguarding tools, including child-friendly guidance on privacy settings, data collection, reporting of grooming attempts, the forthcoming UCoC as well a “Child’s Guide to Editing Wikimedia Project” to help advance the right of children to be civically engaged.

The first one was "ongoing" and the second one was "no action and pending full child rights impact assessment", according to previous comments by WMF human rights team. Thanks. SCP-2000 14:01, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

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