Wikimania 2025

Updates from the Product Safety and Integrity team: Incident Reporting System, Better anti-abuse signals, hCaptcha and more!
2025-08-09 , NYERI
Language: English

There have been several new developments in the Product Safety & Integrity space. We are a new team, formed as a merger of Trust and Safety Product with Product Security: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Safety_and_Integrity

We are developing tools to help users with extended rights detect and stop bad actors more efficiently. We also have a new Incident Reporting tool that is intended to let victims of harm report when something happens. In addition, we are working on a new captcha, support for two-factor authentication, and more.

We want to share the progress we have made and gather your opinions to shape our future. To talk more, join https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:2025/Meetups/Product_Safety_and_Integrity_says_hi


There are a series of updates, including:
- A new reporting system for incidents of harm
- More sophisticated signals to detect and combat bad actors available to users with extended rights
- A better captcha to block bad actors more efficiently
- Ability to do multiple blocks


What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.

Product development

How does your session relate to the event theme: Wikimania@20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?

We make our projects a more safe, welcoming and inclusive space by improving our Product Safety & Integrity infrastructure that helps keep bad actors out and makes it easy for our good faith editors to contribute to our projects.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

This session is for an experienced audience

How do you plan to deliver this session? You will be asked to confirm this closer to the date in case of changes to the format.

Hybrid, with some speakers in Nairobi and others dialing in remotely

Should your session be selected for the program, do you agree to release your session and supporting materials on-wiki and on the eventyay platform under CC BY-SA 4.0?

I agree

My name is Niharika Kohli. I am the Lead Product Manager for the Trust & Safety Product team at the Wikimedia Foundation. I have been with the Foundation for over 10 years in several different roles. I am currently based in Singapore.

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Hi! I'm a principal engineer on the Product Safety and Integrity team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Lately, I've been involved in developing features related to anti-abuse tooling on the wikis, in addition to supporting various other initiatives (incident reporting, temporary accounts, MediaModeration). I've been with the Wikimedia Foundation since 2018.

Lead Movement Communications Specialist, working with the Product Safety and Integrity team (PSI; the merged Trust and Safety Product with Product Security) at the Wikimedia Foundation Product and Technology department.

I work on Temporary Accounts, hCaptcha, Incident Reporting System, and many many more PSI projects. See https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:2025/Meetups/Product_Safety_and_Integrity_says_hi

In addition, I've been a Wikipedian since 2010, and a Polish Wikipedia admin since 2011.

I'm Eric, and I joined WMF in 2025 as a group product manager. I lead the Product Safety and Integrity team, whose roadmap is focused on the security and safety of editors, readers, users with extended rights, and everyone else who makes the wikis work.