[WikiEN-l] User Protection Fund

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Do trolls get insurance, too?  Who do we define as a troll?  Who is worthy
of this kind of protection?


On 6/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How much money are we talking though? As we all know, wikimedia ain't
> > the richest organisation in the world, we are barely scraping by. And
> > a solid legal defense can be very expensive.
>
> The legal fees in question would probably simply amount to someone
> going through the paperwork to get a restraining order etc, small time
> stuff.
>
> This fund sounds like a nice idea in theory, but it would need a lot
> of scoping first - exactly who is covered, to what extent, at whose
> discretion, for what period of time, etc. You're basically talking
> about Wikipedia becoming an unfunded insurance policy. Perhaps the
> people who are covered by it would have to chip in, say $20 a year or
> so?
>
> Steve
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