I'm going to bring this thread back to its original topic. I did some talking and some digging tonight, and it seems to be time to pull up a few relevant links. It's pretty obvious that Community Advocacy is working on harassment issues, including gender-based harassment; I understand a blog post is imminent, as is a serious effort at gathering data from the community. In the interim:
Reminder of commitment and work that is underway with Community Advocacy - I have been assured that it has continued despite Philippe's having left the WMF: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_haras...
Some of the research they have gathered and reviewed - and maybe some of this will be useful for communities directly as well: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Online_harassment_resource_guide
And more research and citations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Advocacy/Citations_on_Harassment_a...
There's this belief that either the WMF or Arbcom can control the behaviour of people on every one of Wikipedia's 20 million pages. It isn't gonna happen no matter what.
Risker/Anne