As an oversighter on Wikimedia Commons, I have witness what has been
described by Maggie and Philippe.
We should take such reports seriously, instead of trying to invalidate the
result. The denial is hindering improvements.
Le 30 janv. 2016 3:03 PM, "Maggie Dennis" <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit
:
Hi, Tobias.
The pictures may not be the individuals at all; they may be pornographic
pictures of others that are misattributed. And sometimes the attribution is
not to a real name, but to their usernames. In all cases, the intent seems
to be to humiliate and hurt the target. Sometimes the goal seems to be to
drive them away.
Of course, I don't know the stories of all the respondents who selected
that - not even a substantial percentage of them. I was surprised by the
prevalence, too, but maybe not as surprised as you given what I *have* seen
in nearly 5 years of working in this area at the WMF. People try all
different kinds of ways to try to hurt each other, and sexualized attacks
of one kind or another are sadly really common.
Best,
Maggie
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Tobias <church.of.emacs.ml(a)googlemail.com
wrote:
> Hi Maggie,
> On 01/30/2016 02:35 PM, Maggie Dennis
wrote:
> > In the time I've worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, I have
> > (unsurprisingly, given its reported prevalence) come across this kind
of
> harassment in my work with Support and
Safety (formerly Community
> Advocacy). There have been cases where perfectly harmless pictures of
the
> individuals have been doctored to be
sexualized and cases where
existing
> > pornographic pictures that were not the individual were selected and
> > misattributed as being them. I have personally been involved in
> complaints
> > of this happening to both men and women.
> thank you for providing further
insights. That is really concerning.
> At the same time, a great majority of
users do not publish photos of
> themselves, and don't publish their name (which would allow others to
> find available photos elsewhere), so it is still a mystery to me how
> this very high percentage can be explained.
> Tobias
>
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