I'll be happy to see a lot of the information and reasoning explained in
the harassment document, including first encouraging people to contact
an administrator. (Identifying administrators who are experienced in the
topic would help too.)
Reasons one might not immediately contact police - unless the guy is
basically outside your door- have been explained above. Like not having
enough details to satisfy them or their not taking it very seriously
anyway, unless they are outside the door. And then some will always be
fearful that such a complaint will lead to a search of their own
computers for the evidence there was a crime and they don't want the
govt snooping around in there (any more than it may already be without
their knowing about it).
My main goal is better guidance on Wikipedia.
On 9/26/2015 4:38 PM, Risker wrote:
I have a simple question to ask: How many people in
this thread have
publicly or privately requested to the Wikimedia Foundation ED that
additional resources be assigned to trust and safety issues such as
death threats?
There was an annual plan posted for about three days of community
comment back in May/June. Did anyone in this thread say "wait a minute,
we think you have your priorities wrong here"?
I'm a little stunned that several people including those with years of
activism under their belts would think that complaining on a mailing
list that is at most hosted by the WMF (and certainly not controlled by
it or monitored by it) would result in changes. The English Wikipedia
community can't tell WMF staffers what to do: we're not their employers,
we don't set their objectives or their job descriptions, and so on. The
lack of additional resources comes right from the top here. If you want
it, you need to be telling the Board, you need to be telling the ED, and
you need to be telling the Senior Director of Community Engagement, Luis
Villa. This list isn't gonna do it. Posting on Wikipediocracy is the
equivalent of throwing coins in a well. Focus your attention on the
people who have control of the money and persuade them this is something
more important than...I don't know, whether notifications are flagged
using one tag or two...
Risker/Anne