Grants talk:IdeaLab/Define Harassment before taking it head on.

Working definition for this campaign

@Ahmer Jamil Khan: Hi Ahmer-- thanks for offering your idea. I think it is important that when we talk about harassment, we can refer to some specific behaviors to help ground understanding of that concept. For this campaign we have proposed the following definition found on our FAQ page:

The term “harassment” covers a variety of aggressive, invasive, or undesirable behaviors that are committed by one person or a group of people against another(s) for the purpose of, or with the effect of, making the victim feel threatened or unwelcome. These actions can include things like name-calling, purposely embarrassing someone, making threats (physical or non-physical), sexual harassment or unwanted sexual attention, invasion of privacy or the publishing of private personal information, stalking (both physical or online), or bullying. Various policies and guidelines from the projects give more specific definitions; see the Friendly Spaces Expectations or the English Wikipedia’s policy on harassment. The Wikimedia technical community is also in the process of creating a Code of Conduct that defines specific behaviour that constitutes harassment.

If you have improvements, or think there is an altogether different definition that would be better, let me know here. We can use this space to improve how we are conceptualizing harassment. Thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Grants to improve your project

Greetings! The Project Grants program is currently accepting proposals for funding. The deadline for draft submissions is tommorrow. If you have ideas for software, offline outreach, research, online community organizing, or other projects that enhance the work of Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others who have great ideas to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea into a grant request.

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The next open call for Project Grants will be in October 2016. You can also consider applying for a Rapid Grant, if your project does not require a large amount of funding, as applications can be submitted anytime. Feel free to ping me if you need help getting your proposal started. Thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) 22:49, 1 August 2016 (UTC)