Community health initiative/Links

Repository of links related to the Community health initiative or online harassment in general.

On-meta links

Research

• Research:Necromancy (May 2012) — Analysis of why Wikipedia editors leave.
• Research:Revision scoring as a service (August 2014)
  • Objective Revision Evaluation Service // ORES
• Research:Harassment survey 2015 (November 2015) — A survey of active English-language Wikipedia users on the topic of harassment occurring on Wikipedia.
• Research:Online Community Conduct Policies (November 2016) — Industry analysis of online harassment policies .
• Research:Detox (February 2016) — Using machine learning to identify attacking comments on English-language Wikipedia.
  • Related white-paper: Ex Machina: Personal Attacks seen at Scale (October 2016)
  • https://www.perspectiveapi.com/ — API produced by Jigsaw
• Research:Online harassment resource guide (Current WIP) — Broad-spectrum guide on many subjects within the realm of online harassment.
• Research:Developing Wikimedia's anti-harassment and behavioral dispute resolution systems (November 2017)
• Research:User reporting systems (November 2018–ongoing) A hub for research conducted by the Foundation on user reporting systems.
• Research:Arabic_Harassment_Netnography (October 2018–February 2019) A study of harassment on Arabic Wikipedia.

Resources & guides

• Inspire Campaign on "Addressing harassment" (June 2016)
• Board Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces (November 2016)
• Harassment workshop (November 2015)
• MediaWiki.org Code of Conduct
• Training modules/Online harassment/First draft & Second draft (Current WIP)
• Support and Safety/Support — list of online resources for online harassment
• Grants:PEG/Ada Initiative/Gender-gap admin training & https://adainitiative.org/
• Grants:IdeaLab/Community discussion on harassment reporting

Wikipedia (and other project) links

• Wikipedia:Administrators'_guide
• Wikipedia:List_of_policies#Conduct
• Wikipedia:Noticeboards
  • Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard
  • Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents (also known as AN/I)
  • Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring
  • Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard
• Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee
• MediaWiki.org Code_of_Conduct
• Definition of Harassment from the Wikimedia Training Library

Tools

• Community Tech/Blocking tools
• Userpage AbuseFilter — volunteer-built tool that prohibits anons & new users from editing others' userpages
• Edit interaction analyzer — Shows intermingled history of 2 or 3 contributors.
• WikiBlame tool — Finds the first diff to contain a specific string in a single page's history
• Twinkle — multi-use Wikipedia gadget

Press

• Community health initiative grant press
  • Blog.Wikimedia.org — Wikimedia Foundation receives $500,000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive Wikimedia community (January 2017)
  • HuffingtonPost.com — Craig Newmark: How Wikipedia Is Fighting Back Against Online Harassment (January 2017)
• Community health initiative rollout
  • Buzzfeed News — The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia (27 June 2019)
  • Slate — Wikipedia’s “Constitutional Crisis” Pits Community Against Foundation (2 July 2019)
  • Breitbart — Wikipedia Owners Back Down on Ban of Veteran Administrator Following Editor Revolt (15 July 2019)
• Detox press
  • ArsTechnica.com — Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site (February 2017)
  • Blog.Wikimedia.org — Algorithms and insults: Scaling up our understanding of harassment on Wikipedia (February 2017)
  • MIT's TechnologyReview.com — Collection of 13,500 Nastygrams Could Advance War on Trolls (February 2017)
  • Wired.com — INSIDE GOOGLE’S INTERNET JUSTICE LEAGUE AND ITS AI-POWERED WAR ON TROLLS (September 2016)
  • Medium.com — WHEN COMPUTERS LEARN TO SWEAR: USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR BETTER ONLINE CONVERSATIONS (February 2017)
• Miscellaneous press
  • ArsTechnica.com — The art of the troll: New tool reveals egg users’—and Trump’s—posting patterns (February 2017)
  • Backchannel.com — The Troll Taunter: A young Wikipedia editor withstood a decade of online abuse. Now she’s fighting back — on Wikipedia itself. (February 2017)
  • Buzzfeed.com — Twitter Will Start Using Algorithms To Crack Down On Abusive Accounts (March 2017)
  • Medium.com — Current Reading List (of papers) on Online Harassment and Machine Learning (April 2017)

External research

• The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline (Halfaker, August 2014)
• The Pew Research Center's report on Online Harassment (October 2014)
• Measuring Performance in Modern Police Organization (March 2015)
• Center for Democracy & Technology's statement on Community, Identity, Power, & Speech (July 2016)
• EFF's Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment (January 2015)
• The Pew Research Center's report on The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online (March 2017)
• Data & Society Research Institute's report on Online Harassment, Digital Abuse, & Cyberstalking in America (November 2016)