I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was taking
advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite harassment. The problem is
that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So it should not be giving any advice on
the matter of stopping it.
To make this case, I used the examples of FT2's "Anvil Email" threatening an
editor's family and AGK's filing a trumped-up complaint to an editor's
employer, and then on a similar theme I pointed to Wikimedia Foundation steward JurgenNL
and administrator TBloemink's real-life stalking of MoiraMoira (they laughed about her
on IRC and then took a train trip to visit her house).
I won't copy-paste the whole thing here, but if you're interested you'll find
it here:
http://timsongfan.livejournal.com/1971.html. Feedback is welcome. I think the
WMF's policy of according IP and other sensitive user data via checkuser and UTRS and
so forth to anonymous administrators is creating real risks to Wikipedia editors, and that
is the case I make in the open letter.
Trillium Corsage