Anti-Harassment Tools

The Anti-Harassment Tools (AHT) team was a Wikimedia Foundation team focused on IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation, sometimes referred to as IP Masking.

Anti-Harassment Tools Group: Product and Technology Team members: #Team members Backlog: On Phabricator Management: Niharika Kohli (product)

Previously, AHT did technical work in support of the Community health initiative that aim was to reduce the level of harassment and disruptive behavior on wikis.

The team was formed in 2018. In 2023, it was merged with Trust and Safety Tools to form Trust and Safety Product.

Team members

• 
  Niharika Kohli
  Product Manager
• 
  Thalia Chan
  Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
• 
  Tran
  Staff Software Engineer
• 
  Anaïs Gueyte
  Senior Software Engineer
• 
  Cynthia Simiyu
  Software Engineer
• 
  Claudia Lo
  Senior Design Researcher
• 
  Katie Coleman
  Lead UX Designer
• 
  Dom Walden
  Test Engineer
• 
  Aida A. Ramirez
  Lead Technical Program Manager
• 
  Juan "Jay" Cano
  Engineering Manager
• 
  Tšepo Thoabala
  Senior Software Engineer
• 
  Jennifer Wang
  Staff Data Scientist
• 
  Sherry Snyder
  Community Relations Specialist

Projects

See Community health initiative#Anti-Harassment Tools for information on our projects. Notable projects include:

• SecurePoll improvements
• Blocking tools and improvements
  • Partial blocks
• User reporting system
• Interaction Timeline
• User mute features
• IP Editing: Privacy Enhancement and Abuse Mitigation (in collaboration with the MediaWiki Platform Team)
  • IP Info feature
• For a timeline of our major releases, see Release Timeline

Helpful links

• Phabricator workboard
• Community health initiative (now defunct)
• Anti-Harassment Program
• Guide for creating new extensions
• Guide for technical contributors on how to work with the team
• Internal Requests Outside of Annual Planning

Subpages list
Pages with the prefix 'Anti-Harassment Tools' in the 'Main' and 'Main talk' namespaces: Main: Main talk: