[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

The question you ask, Eric, is a part of the mildness we generally applied to this matter. It was made plain that a user could edit on both ED and Wikipedia. We just asked them to wear their Wikipedia hat when they were here. There was no witchhunt, although those who were actively harassing MONGO were sanctioned. We really haven't had users who have made extensive links to ED pages trashing our users. What we have had is "BADSITES" activism. Which I think drives traffic to their site as well as occassional links would. However, we don't have "cool" users with ED links on their userpages. It disrupts their use of Wikipedia for networking. 
 Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Moeller [mailto:erik at wikimedia.org]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 04:24 PM
To: 'English Wikipedia'
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

On 10/20/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> The only real question is where and how to draw the line, but we are
> actually fortunate in this regard: there are virtually no borderline
> cases as an empirical matter.

I'm not sure why it has to be a discussion about websites at all. If
someone is going around adding links to ED, then I have to wonder what
the .. they are doing on Wikipedia in the first place. It seems much
more promising to me to look at the substance of someone's actions,
rather than at the patterns of URLs.

-- 
Toward Peace, Love & Progress:
Erik

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