On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Note: most of the "in trouble" editor's
aren't that productive at
contributing feminist content to Wikipedia. I have interacted with only
four of them - Black Kite, Future Perfect at Sunrise, TarainDC and Bilby -
only one is a female in real life and I know her from GLAM editing
projects. She is the only one that I know who has actively edited feminist
topics prior to this. I actually consider Bilby an ally, but, I have never
heard him or any of the other editors blatantly identify themselves as
feminists.
Black Kite, Future Perfect at Sunrise and Bilby are not mentioned on the
Proposed decision page, so I don't see how they are in trouble.
The Guardian article is talking about the five editors dubbed "the five
horsemen" by the Gamergate movement, e.g. here:
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index.php?title=Projects:Operation_5_Horsemen
They're Ryulong, NorthBySouthBaranof, Tarc, TheRedPenOfDoom, and TaraInDC.
As things stand,
-- Ryulong, Tarc and TaraInDC are currently heading for topic bans;
-- TheRedPenOfDoom and NorthBySouthBaranof are being admonished.
A potential downside of this decision is that in future, fewer established
editors will be eager to deal with situations like this, as they can expect
that it will ultimately result in their being drawn into an arbcom case and
sanctioned in some way.
Andreas