Discussions/Community health II

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Practical facts

Topic: Community health II: Tackling harassment
Date & Time: Saturday 25 June, 16.45–17.25h
Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikimania2016-discussion5b
Facilitator: Sj & Jan-Bart & nithum & Ewulczyn (WMF)
Venue: Primary School (Room 11)

Introduction

Harassment and civility issues are a growing concern for the Wikimedia projects as well as other online communities. This past year we have seen calls for machine learning based tools for dealing with this problem in a variety of forums, including Wikimedia-l, the enwiki Village Pump, the 2015 Harassment Consultation and the Community Wish List. We would like to continue these discussions at Wikimania, focussing on the following questions:

Given a tool that could accurately score a talk page edits across the dimensions of toxicity we want address, how could these scores be used to improve editing culture?
What are the possible pitfalls we need to consider when building and deploying these tools?

Resources

Getting Involved

Sign up as a participant on the Wiki-Detox project page [here]
Join a discussion on the Wiki-Detox project page (here)
Help out with labeling enwiki revisions on Crowdflower [here] (WARNING: This task involves exposure to very explicit language.)

Interested attendees

Panyd (talk) 12:32, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Kritzolina (talk) 05:55, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 07:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]