From: Aude <audevivere(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 2:52 AM
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Ting Chen
<wing.philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Back to BLP. Personally I think that the policies
we have related to
> BLPs are enough, but maybe we should be put
more
resource in the
> inforcement of these policies. The meetings
Philipp mentioned in Germany
> are a very good start point. Perhaps the
foundation can help organize
> such OTRS-training-meetings in the US
(because the
lack of a US chapter)
> and other countries, just as a beginning.
Later we
maybe we can see how
> we can expand this to more regions and
countries.
We should also
> encourage more people to work and help on
OTRS and
give them due support.
Regarding putting more resources into enforcement of BLP
policies, what
resources are you talking about? I have seen problems
reported to the BLP
and other noticeboards, with no response or inadequate
responses from admins
and editors.
One problem I encountered is that the BLP noticeboard on en.WP is regularly archived by
date, whether or not a thread has been resolved. I frankly don't do much work in this
area, but I occasionally stumble across something and report it there. The lack of
feedback about whether the issue I reported was significant is discouraging. I imagine
casual reporters who do not see the issues they report resolved nor get feedback on why
the issues is not a concern simply stop making reports there.
Birgitte SB