Talk:Small Wiki Monitoring Team
Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping
Tiõrv! After recent experiences with the SWMT on two separate wikipedia projects, I think that the "How to monitor a small wiki" section needs to include a new line with "Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping". On both smnwp and sewp, we recently had team members who decided to help out by deleting what they had identified as broken redirects. With the first member to do so, we interacted with them and explained why we had reverted their edits and a nice dialogue ensued. This left a really good impression of SWMT and was refreshing.
A short while later a new member of SWMT comes and deletes the same exact pages on one of these two wps, but still has not interacted with the community. Later on, they moved on to the other wp and did the same thing. This definitely did not leave a good impression of what this team does to help out.
I would assume that the se and smn language communities are not the only ones on this team's monitoring list who have had more than enough experience with this latter type of "we have decided this is in your best interest because you do not know what is good for you" offline over the centuries. I do not assume that team members would realize the enormity of the intergenerational damage that that type of behaviour has left on many minority language communities, so please listen as it is crucial that you do. Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping, especially when they say no, don't do that. Thank you. Yupik (talk) 12:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Open meeting invitation
Hello, all. The mw:Editing team is starting a new project, mw:Edit check. They are particularly seeking the views of RecentChanges patrollers and other reviewers. One of the open questions is: When should the visual editor encourage people to add a citation?
The meeting will be this coming Friday, 3 March 2023. More information is available at mw:Editing team/Community Conversations#3 March 2023. I hope that many of you will be able to attend, but if you aren't, please consider leaving your advice to the team on the talk page. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
UCoC Note concerning Global AbuseFilter
- Pls. note that as a notice here, that some changes in Requests for comment/Make global abuse filters opt-out were discussed. See the historical development:
- The technical work to create a global (across a set of Wikimedia wikis) AbuseFilter started in 2009. In 2012, a proposal to create a Global AbuseFilter was created on Meta-Wiki. A vote was held on Meta-Wiki talk page, with a majority of supports, but the discussion was not well-advertised and had little participation. For almost two years, the proposal languished, but technical development slowly continued. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis (metawiki, specieswiki, incubatorwiki, testwiki, test2wiki, mediawikiwiki, and in 2014 "small wikis"). This was the beginning of the trial phase. Global filters were recently enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. Some rules about global filters were proposed, but never completely accepted. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to Global AbuseFilter/Opt-out wikis.
- If you have any doubts about how to act pls. keep in mind https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct
- Abuse of office by functionaries, officials and staff:
- use of authority, knowledge, or resources at the disposal of designated functionaries, as well as officials and staff of the Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia affiliates, to intimidate or threaten others.
- Abuse of seniority and connections:
- Using one's position and reputation to intimidate others. We expect people with significant experience and connections in the movement to behave with special care because hostile comments from them may carry an unintended backlash. People with community authority have a particular privilege to be viewed as reliable and should not abuse this to attack others who disagree with them.
- Abuse of office by functionaries, officials and staff:
- Historically, Global AbuseFilter has done a good job in and for small wikis. Changes can occur if the filters are maintained by an extended group of users (not only stewards) without particular knowledge of the collection process and notably known process for survey.
- Best --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 08:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)