I'm going to bring this thread back to its original topic. I did some
talking and some digging tonight, and it seems to be time to pull up a few
relevant links. It's pretty obvious that Community Advocacy is working on
harassment issues, including gender-based harassment; I understand a blog
post is imminent, as is a serious effort at gathering data from the
community. In the interim:
Reminder of commitment and work that is underway with Community Advocacy -
I have been assured that it has continued despite Philippe's having left
the WMF:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Community_discussion_on_hara…
Some of the research they have gathered and reviewed - and maybe some of
this will be useful for communities directly as well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Online_harassment_resource_guide
And more research and citations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Advocacy/Citations_on_Harassment_…
There's this belief that either the WMF or Arbcom can control the behaviour
of people on every one of Wikipedia's 20 million pages. It isn't gonna
happen no matter what.
Risker/Anne