[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[Ray Saintonge]

Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> Naturally. But half the time, when dealing with cross-wiki disruption, we don't need checkuser. It's something basic: the same hoax on pl and en, or the same crankery being pushed by obviously the same peopl on fr and en. Not everyone uses IRC, which seems to be currently the fastest (only?) way to talk to someone from these other projects.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, anything but the silliest and 
ineffectual forms of disruption on projects in different languages 
requires a good understanding of those languages.  For a hoax to be 
credible it needs to reflect reasonable linguistic sophistication, and 
an ability to at least mount a coherent early level defence of the 
hoax.  Native English speakers are notorious for their lack of skills in 
other languages, so if there is going to be any significant disruptive 
behaviour from any one individual the other language will more likely 
have been the first target and English the secondary target. 

Smaller sister projects in the same language tend not to have the same 
high profile as the Wikipedia for that language.  They mostly fly below 
the disruptor's radar.

Ec