Gather/Moderation Criteria

About
On English Wikipedia we want to hide collections that damage the fabric of our community or cause harm to a private individual. This is a living breathing document. Since it is a new feature it will change with usage and we encourage administrators interested in moderating to edit this article and help us reach a consensus on what is or is not appropriate with regard to collections.

Collections are a way to navigate, share and discover wikipedia articles. They are not articles and the standards that apply to Wikipedia articles do not necessarily apply to Collections. For instance, a collection with the name "The empire state building is the shortest building in the world" by user3232 should live! It is a personal opinion and clearly so. In some cases, like here some users might be creating problematic lists that would need action from the community.

* What do we want to achieve from moderation?
 * Ensure that legal policies are met
 * Adhere to policies on books deletion

* What do we want to avoid in moderation?
 * Overloading admins
 * Making the process too complex, or closed that slows actions when needed to be taken, fast.

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 * In terms of moderation, user groups could be divided into:'''


 * Anyone can flag a list.
 * Admins can view all lists including boththose entirely deleted and hidden
 * Admins can view all lists that have been flagged more than X% of users.
 * Anyone can view lists including flagged (that have not met cutoff above)

Moderation Criteria
Our main objective is to ensure that legal policies are met, but a secondary objective is to maintain a safe community.

Open question

 * What happens with flagged once, or flagged twice?

Proposed workflow:

 * 1) List is created.
 * 2) Anyone can see it, anyone can flag it
 * 3) If list has X flags (or X% flags), then list is automatically "hidden-for-review"--now only Admins can see it.
 * 4) An admin looks only at the lists that are "hidden for review" (if they want)
 * 5) decides the list should be hidden
 * 6) Admin hides list and it is removed from "hidden for review" list.
 * 7) List is now in the "hidden list)
 * 8) decides the list is fine
 * 9) Admin marks list as reviewed and it's flag counter is reset
 * 10) List is now viewable by anyone
 * 11) Future: decides that list should be deleted.  List is removed from sight by anyone except __X privilege.

What we hide:

 * private, personal information (such as social security numbers)
 * threats of violence, sexual exploitation, theft, vandalism, or other financial harm.
 * shaming, bullying or harassing private individuals
 * hate speech(?)
 * collections where the title and description are not consistent with the content and the content could cause offense: i.e. "Happy bunny pictures"--> collection with images of torture
 * collections with "Wikipedia" in the title or description that suggest the collection represents the official position of the encyclopedia
 * collections where the name or description contains personal details e.g. an e-mail address or telephone number or postal address or other similar sensitive information.

Reasons we do not hide:

 * statements that are false
 * opinions we disagree with
 * collections that are trivial or meaningless
 * collections that are humorous
 * collections that with "Wikipedia" in the title or description that do not suggest the collection represents the official position of the encyclopedia (e.g. "Wikipedia articles I helped with")

Messaging
In this sprint, we will be working on notifying users where their lists in hidden.


 * When you hide a collection, email or put on the owner's talk page the following message:

Hi,

I am an admin for Wikipedia and am helping to keep Wikipedia a positive, safe place for everyone. I hid your list from public viewing because it was ___

If you have any questions or concerns, please respond to this message within 72 hours.

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Unhiding
If you unhide a collection, please email or put the following on the owner's talk page:

Hi,

I am an admin for Wikipedia and I unhid your list, because it does not currently violate our standards of conduct for collections. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by your list being hidden. ~