Ombuds commission/2021/Report Feb-Apr

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This is a periodic report summarising the activity and caseload of the Ombuds Commission for the period from 25 January to 5 May 2021.

  • The Commission entered this reporting period with 18 matters unresolved.
  • 13 new matters were raised with the Ombuds Commission during the period.
  • The Commission passed a resolution upon 13 matters during the period.
  • 4 complaints were immediately closed as the facts described were clearly outside the Ombuds Commission's scope or for other appropriate reasons.
  • At the period end there were 14 open matters:
    • 10 open matters involve the use of the CheckUser tool;
    • No open matters involve the use of the Oversight tool;
    • 4 open matters concern policies in general.

Membership edit

The commission was renewed at the beginning of this period, 8 new members were added, while 4 members of the previous commission remained in office. Now there are 10 effective members and 2 advisors. The commission made some changes to its internal policies and introduced the role of "Chair".

User Home wiki Language spoken Role
Acagastya (CA) enwikinews hi, gu, en-4, es-2, sa-2, ar-1, fr-1, mr-1, ur-1 Ombudsperson
AGK (CA) enwiki en, sco-3, es-2, gd-1 Chair
Ajraddatz (CA) metawiki, wikidata en, fr-2 Advisor
Ameisenigel (CA) dewiki de, en-4, nds-2, fr-1 Ombudsperson
Emufarmers (CA) enwiki en, la-2 Ombudsperson
Faendalimas (CA) wikispecies en, pt-3, it-2, fr-1 Ombudsperson
Galahad (CA) eswikivoyage es, en-1 Advisor
JJMC89 (CA) enwiki en Ombudsperson
Moheen (CA) bnwiki bn, ctg, en-3 Ombudsperson
MrJaroslavik (CA) cswiki cs, en-3, sk-3 Ombudsperson
ProtoplasmaKid (CA) eswiki es, en-3, pt-3 Ombudsperson
Superpes15 (CA) itwiki it, en-2, es-1, fr-1, la-1 Ombudsperson

Ageing edit

The caseload ageing of the Commission over the period was:

As at period start Closed matters Raised in period As at period end
New 1 17 13 1
1 month old 4 3
2 months old 3 0
3 months old 1 4
6 months old 5 3
Over 1 year old 4 3
Total 18 17 13 14

Resolutions issued edit

During the period, one or more reports were made to the Wikimedia Foundation by the Commissioners in the meaning of the terms of reference.

During this period some recommendations were sent to some CheckUsers and Stewards and 2 public actions were taken by WMF on recommendation by the OC.

The Commission does not publish any other details of its resolutions.

Report published by Commission member: --Superpes15 (talk) 13:29, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]