[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Harassment victim support fund

[geni]

On 18/10/2007, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
> I've discussed this idea with a few editors before including JzG,
> Slimvirgin and
> KillerChihuaha all who thought it was a good idea. Unfortunately the first two
> of those are no longer active. In both cases they might very well be active if
> we did have such a fund. IANAL but we would need to set it up as a 501c3
> probably and make very sure to keep it very separate from the foundation. The
> foundation is more important than anyone editor and must be well insulated
> against any legal foul ups by editors.
>

How many people did we lose due to amorrow? And that was inbox full of
death threats harassment. People leave. Some of them come back. Yes
there are some for who a legal fund might be useful in getting them to
stay but probably not the ones you are thinking of.


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geni