2024:Program/Trust and Safety Product 2/2: Temporary Accounts are coming
Session title: Trust and Safety Product 2/2: Temporary Accounts are coming
- Session type: Lecture
- Track: Community Health
- Language: en
Temporary Accounts will be rolled out in the next few months on all projects. Learn about what they are, how they will impact you and what you need to do. This project is very much in development stages. We will be gathering feedback as much as disseminating information about the work.
Description
[edit | edit source]Temporary Accounts have been a work in progress over the last few years. The goal for this legally-mandated project is to replace IP addresses with auto-generated temporary accounts. IP addresses will be accessible only to those users who require access for anti-vandalism purposes. This is a widespread change that will impact many tools and extensions. It will also impact anti-vandalism workflows across our projects. Our goal for this session is to spread the word about this change and gather feedback or questions about this work.
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r2AQ8VnH_o&t=4956
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
Temporary Accounts are being introduced to improve the privacy of our unregistered editors. However, this work has the potential to impact many critical community tools and workflows. Our goal is to ensure that functionaries and anti-vandalism patrollers are able to do their work effectively and efficiently.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
[edit | edit source]- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MoYjpb2ZPY0bjzn0-PxyM7kghAAYWA8AefTT2jWXLy0/edit#slide=id.g2cbe13544d8_9_15
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wikimania2024-temp-accounts
Speakers
[edit | edit source]- Szymon Grabarczuk
- Polish Wikipedian since 2010, admin of Polish Wikipedia since 2011, Lead Movement Communications Specialist working with Product & Technology at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a volunteer, on the Wikimania 2024 Core Organizing Team.
- Between 2019 and 2022, the Vice-Chair and Secretary of the Board at Wikimedia Polska.
- William Brown
- I am known as Dreamy Jazz on WMF projects.
- Professionally, I'm a part of the Trust and Safety Product team.
- Niharika
- I have been working with the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities for almost 10 years. My work has spanned several engineering and product roles. I am currently a Lead Product Manager with the Trust & Safety Product team at WMF.
- I am based out of Singapore.
- Madi Moss
- My first edit to Wikipedia was in 2010 as part of a school book review, for which my classmates and I earned the following talk page comment: “This isn't a school book review; it's a Wikipedia article.” I hope my edit quality has improved since then!
- My work focuses on data privacy. I advise on inquiries and requests we receive from the public, the community, the Foundation, and other entities.