I have no personal knowledge of the recent events at Wikimania, and I will
speak about only the general principles involved.
True. But for privacy and other reasons, it is
impractical to make
friendly-space violations a matter of public debate,
Please provide evidence that backs up that point. I have repeatedly seen
similar assertions made by WMF staff with no data or analysis to support it.
so we cannot resolve this the wiki way. Instead, we
*have* to trust the
people entrusted with enforcing the policy that they are careful, sensible,
and competent.
I wholeheartedly disagree. I don't trust judges to put people in jail
simply because they happen to be judges. I trust judges to put people in
jail after the publication of convincing evidence and reasoning to support
their intended course of action.
The standard of evidence required to remove someone from office, or remove
them from an event, can be lower than the standard required to put someone
in jail, but I still want mostly transparent due process to happen so that:
1. people who allege that misconduct has taken place have significant
visibility into how their complaints are handled and thus, hopefully, can
have confidence that the accusations are investigated in a responsible
manner instead of being carelessly dismissed, and
2. people are not victimized with clearly false or poorly supported
accusations that the authorities recklessly use as a basis for issuing
sanctions instead of conducting a responsible investigation.
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )