On 27 January 2017 at 18:17, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> wrote:
[snip]
What I am curious about, is whether there are also
efforts ongoing that are
focused on influencing community behavior in a more preventive manner. I'm
not sure how that would work out in practice,
[snip]
But I do want to express my hope that somewhere in the
Foundation (and affiliates), work is being done to
also look at preventing
bullying and harassment - besides handling it effectively. And that you
maybe keep that work in mind, when developing these tools. Some overlap may
exist - for example, I could imagine that if the
harassment-identificationtool is reliable enough, it could trigger warnings
to users before they save their edit, or the scores could be used in admin
applications (and for others with example-functions). A more social
approach that is unrelated, would be to train community members on how to
respond to poisonous behavior. I'm just thinking out loud here, and others
may have much better approaches in mind (or actually work on them).
Actually Lodewijk, it's happening not too far from you. Wikimedia
Nederland [1] has been working on this for a while, quietly, with
small samples and small steps, but with good results and most
importantly, a lot of hope and resilience to pursue this really really
hard work.
Delphine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2016-2017_round1/Wikim…
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