Some of these ideas were advanced in the last Inspire Campaign on
addressing harassment by User:BethNaught:
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Allow_users_to_restrict_who_…
If folks want to work on developing this idea for out more concretely, they
can use this page to begin doing so. Eventually, when a proposal is ready
and a fuller discussion is needed, I'd need to look into where the
appropriate place to go is, because I'm not sure if functions regarding
e-mail are handled on a project-by-project basis (and if so, where that is)
or if this needs to happen somewhere on
Mediawiki.org. I suppose a decent
place to start would be the village pump of a specific project to get a
conversation started once a proposal is ready.
- Jethro
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, WereSpielChequers
<
werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
...
The first would be to allow editors to set their email to only receive
from confirmed or even extended confirmed accounts. This would be invisible
to new editors, they'd just not see the *email this user *option for
people they weren't entitled to email.
This is a great idea. I wish I had this now.
The second would be an opt in Email moderation
service. Similarly to only
receiving email from confirmed or extended confirmed accounts, this would
enable editors to opt all or parts of their email via the "email this user"
function into a moderated stream. Much as with moderated posts to lists
like this, a list admin would see the email and either approve it or take
other action. You'd presumably need to having something on the send email
screen to say that "this editor has opted into email moderation and your
email will be delayed slightly before being screened and forwarded" You'd
also need a group of volunteers to do the moderation, spot abusive emails
and block abusers.
Also a good idea, but I doubt it would be scalable. We have a hard enough
time finding volunteers to moderate this mailing list, much less, hundreds
of people's incoming email streams. Plus there would be serious privacy
issues to worry about.
The third would be an AI driven filter that
people could opt into and
which would screen emails going through this system and put high risk ones
into a moderation queue.
This might be a more workable implementation of the previous idea.
Another idea I've heard would be to let people use email aliases similar
to Craigslist. That way you could respond to wiki-related emails without
giving away your actual email address.
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