Thank you for the info.
Regards, Lars Gardenius
________________________________ Von: Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net An: Lars Gardenius lars.gardenius@yahoo.de CC: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 10:10 Samstag, 7.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself
Well that is because you are not forced to register your real name and address before starting an account in the Wikis. Of course you can still use a pseudonym while working, but the org. would know who the users are. While diminish the will to mob, abuse, and vandalise tremendously when your true identity is known.
I personally have always noticed that it is much better to use ones real name. I notice that aggressive people are less willing to attack someone whose name they know. It is even better if you show your face. People are much less willing to attack someone who they feel they know. The persons who still attack are often mentally instable and easy to track and report to the police.
Regards, lars Gardenius
Ok, here's someone who seems to share some of your ideas:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:John_Vandenberg/WMF_BoT_candidature_not...
"There are many members of 'our community' who have 10,000+ edits and are maliciously controlling negative content about other people, and doing it anonymously. There are regular complaints being made on the talk pages, to OTRS, and in social media about these editors. The problem is made worse by our culture of protecting anonymity, resulting in an assumption that 'outing' anyone is a bannable offense, even if they are one of these problem editors. I predict that Wikipedia will increasingly become ridiculed for its current position of allowing anonymous edits to biographies of living people unless we can build better systems of identifying and preventing these problem editors. We need to innovate. We need to warn existing and future problem editors that malicious editing from an anonymous accounts is not safe, and the media is starting to undertake real investigative journalism of Wikipedia editors where they see problems.
The most important step in fixing the cultural problem is to introduce the ability for Wikipedia accounts to be voluntarily linked to identities in other systems, such as twitter, facebook, identica, etc. This could be included in the account creation process, provided that it is optional and the risks are clearly explained. With this in place, new accounts can declare up front that they are not trying to hide their identity, and do not mind their identity and COI being discussed publicly.
The next strategic measure that should be taken is the introduction of a complaint system designed for average Internet users with no wiki editing skills, and that complaint management system needs to support resolution and escalation of complaints (i.e. 'mark resolved', with 'mark unresolved' that ensures the complaint can't be 'resolved' again by the same person who marked it resolved the first time; an escalate function that feeds into a mediation process; rather than overusing the 'block' an account functionality,..."
From one of the arbitrators who ran for the board.
Fred