[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

[Ray Saintonge]

Nathan wrote:
> I wouldn't mind seeing some more detail, Sarah. Holding folks accountable
> for their judgment is something we can do without the Foundation's input. I
> think its clear to everyone that part of the problem, whatever its scope, is
> the lack of more general recognition in the Wikimedia community of its
> seriousness.
>
> There are a few ways that the problem can become high profile enough for
> everyone to think about it and take it seriously - the most obvious is
> publicity following an attack of some sort, but another method can be
> pointing out to people and the community when serious problems are
> overlooked by people known for their judgment and awareness. It demonstrates
> that stalkers and those whose history includes cross-project harassment can
> be easily overlooked and even praised because we don't have an organized way
> to track them, maintain a consolidated history or deal with them across the
> larger community.
Do we have statistics about the extent of cross-project harassment?  How 
many of these people really go on to another project to cause the same 
kind of problems?

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