It depends on the nature of the incident. If the harassment took place on the wiki, yes, it should be reported via an on-wiki process since it does not involve private information. On the English Wikipedia, that would generally be AN/I.
If the harassment happened off-wiki (e.g., via harassing emails), on the English Wikipedia it may be reported to the Arbitration Committee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee). Other projects may have different processes for handling incidents which involve off-wiki harassment.
Todd
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:11 PM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I don't know the fact directly but the standard procedure is to discuss it with a local administrator on the relevant talk page or notice board. So, Vermont is correct.
The T&S does not usually take action in cases that can generally be handled by the local community. Thus, responses such as "falls outside the Foundation's remit" isn't bad in such cases.
Regards.
Isaac
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020, 22:51 Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l, < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Chris,
More generally, conduct issues are handled locally. We do not have a central authority to handle issues like this; local communities are, in
the
vast majority of cases, capable of handling conduct problems of it’s editors. Not to mention that T&S would be incapable of handling every
minor
conduct problem.
It also is not something that is usually emailed to emergency@; if
there’s
extensive problems with harassment, and local functions do not work, ca@wikimedia.org will get you in touch with T&S who can look into the issue.
However, you haven’t tried to handle this locally. Creating an ANI
section,
seeing that people aren’t 100% in agreement with your preferred outcome, and then removing it is not very helpful towards resolving this.
From my somewhat limited looking into the events, there’s been some problematic shows of incivility on from both parties, with WWGB using the word “cutie” in an offhand edit summary. It isn’t appropriate, it
certainly
didn’t improve their point, but calling it sexual harassment and hoping
for
the WMF or others to take immediate and dire action without community
input
is misleading and unrealistic. On a collaborative project, problems are handled collaboratively with uninvolved editors looking at the issue
from a
third party perspective, giving their input, and at some point an administrator coming along to enact the consensus. That’s why
noticeboards
of this type exist, which discuss and evaluate conduct issues to seek a resolution. We do not know how other community members and admins would have participated in the discussion because it was cut short.
I noticed that you said, on Facebook, that you did not feel safe talking
to
WWGB directly about it, and that you did not feel safe on ANI. I’m very sorry to hear this; though I am not sure what you believe to be unsafe about leaving a talk page message stating your having taken offense at WWGB’s remarks, or asking for input from administrators and the community to resolve the issue, those are the methods of fixing issues. If either action were met with hostility, insult, or further harassment, there
would
be a very clear and simple case for an administrator to take action, and thus would have been much easier. If WWGB, however, apologized and agreed not to continue with such conduct in the future, it would also have been much easier. We don’t have a sort of secret police to handle issues in private. The community processes exist for a reason, and when permitted
to
take place, usually work.
Best regards, Vermont
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 17:27 Aron Manning aronmanning5@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 22:43, Chris Sherlock <
chris.sherlock79@gmail.com
wrote:
I have been advised by the WMF that if anyone is concerned about
being
sexually harassed they must report this to AN/I and there are no
private
mechanisms to report this sort of thing.
Is this for real?
Assuming you've contacted Trust&Safety, "falls outside of the
Foundation's
remit" is a standard answer to receive as a regular editor.
Bringing the issue to ANI it will most likely be ignored. If your issue
is
with a long-term / established editor it has a significant chance to boomerang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:BOOMERANG.
Sadly, this is for real and somewhat the reason behind the UCoC
proposal.
Whether that will change this is another question.
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