[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikimediameta-l] Wikimedia and cyberstalking

Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 20:52:50 UTC 2007


I'm not sure if SlimVirgin is subscribed here, I'll CC: it to her.

On 9/4/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org > wrote:
>
>
> > I'm writing a paper on cyberstalking and harassment, which I hope to
> > hand to the Foundation with a view to educating people about the
> > extent of the problem on the Wikimedia projects, and if possible
> > improving their responses to it.
> >
> > I'd like to include some concrete examples of cyberstalking or offline
> > stalking that have happened to users as a result of their
> > participation in any of the Wikimedia projects, and particularly where
> > the target was picked on because they were an administrator.
> >
> > [...]
> > I'd also like to hear from women who feel they were subjected to
> > additional harassment because of their sex, or from gays and members
> > of ethnic minorities who feel they were picked on in whole or in part
> > because of that.
> >
>
> With all due respect this seems somewhat backwards. A useful
> sociological study would be: To what extent is "cyberstalking" and
> harrassment a problem on Wikimedia Foundation projects, and if it is a
> significant problem, what character does it take? This proposal puts the
> cart behind the horse, opining, despite admittedly not having "concrete
> examples", that it is a serious problem that the Foundation is not
> responding to appropriately, and then trolling for anecdotes. That
> strikes me as more like a class-action-lawyer's method of operating than
> a valid methodology for sociology research, and I can already guess what
> the results of a study carried out in that fashion are going to be,
> since the proposed study outlines pretty openly what it plans to find.
>
> -Mark
>
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