I have been surprised again and again by a casual form of vandalism that
goes unchecked because it is possibly seen as humorous. Here is an example
of something I have corrected in passing (and can remember how to find in
order to link it here):
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Tobias,
Like Maggie, I was not surprised that people (both men and women) were
reporting revenge porn because I know of reports in the Wikimedia
community, but like her I was surprised that this survey showed
revenge porn being reported by this many people.
But it is not surprising that the people who experienced the worst
types of harassment, or type that the WMF and wikimedia community is
the least able to address would respond to this survey.
Without further verification, I would not suggest the 65% figure to be
representative of the whole wikimedia community of people who are
harassed. Most people understand that this type of survey sample would
not produce results that are representative of the whole community.
But it does show an example of a type of extreme harassment that
poorly understood by the community. This information can help educate
the WMF and the wikimedia community, and hopefully will help find
better ways of assisting the people being harassed.
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Maggie Dennis <mdennis(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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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