---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rexx <withheld> Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:17 AM Subject: [Chapters] Why are users blocked on Wikipedia? To: Wikimedia Chapters general discussions <withheld>

Many of you may know Oliver Keyes (User:Ironholds) who works for WMF. He's been doing some spare-time research on "Why are users blocked on Wikipedia?" and documented it on his blog at http://blog.ironholds.org/?p=31- interesting reading.

I commented that he needed to duplicate the research on other language Wikipedias to see what differences show up, so that we can look for reasons why the problems may be different in different wikis. Unfortunately Oliver is only fluent in English and would like to partner with Wikimedians from other projects who might be interested in helping out. It certainly sounds like a good cause, so if you know anyone who would be willing, perhaps they could drop a note on Oliver's blog or leave him a message on hid talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ironholds

Thanks in advance for any help,