On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
In order to prevent the traditional devolution of Foundation-l discussions into irrelevancies, the next step ought to be concrete suggestions regarding what we can actually do (if anything). If the Foundation can't establish procedures for handling serious events of stalking, can the community do so in its stead?
I don't think the Foundation or the community can do anything directly. Asking the Foundation or the community to stop stalking would be like asking Facebook or Myspace (or their communities) to stop child abuse.
Indirectly, I think there's a catch-22. Wikimedia projects rely on people sitting on their computers for hours upon hours working for free. That attracts weird people.