[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

[George Herbert]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:26 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/2 Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi at gmail.com>:
>
> > Since BLP is so important--and Sue is wrong, not because of the
> > "coverage" of Wikimedia over it, which is distantly secondary to the
> > negative effects of a bad BLP situation on a Wikimedia site--then
> > let's put a big prominent "Report A Problem" link on the top of every
> > page, WMF-wide.
>
>
> I can see "Report a problem with this page" going in the sidebar of
> en:wp without controversy. We might even make it red.
>
> The main thing would be to make sure we have the back end in place.
>
> Something like the Special:Contact page would be a good idea. At the
> very least, a mailto:info at wikimedia.org link.
>
> (But first, it'd be good to know just what will be done with editorial
> notes - just throwing them away wouldn't be good. OTRS is rather
> understaffed as is. It'd be easy to look like we can deal with lots of
> complaints, but I'm not sure we can just yet.)
>


Yeah - as useful as it would be to have a "send email to OTRS" link
everywhere, using that as the first line of response to quality problems
wiki-wide would crush OTRS.  Talk pages and admins and noticeboards are
there on-wiki for reasons.... the on-wiki response scales much better than
OTRS, who are artificially limited by being restricted to people identified
and known well enough to be trusted with what is in some cases extremely
sensitive personal information.

If we think this is worth doing - can we have an article tag which would
shift it from making some sort of local on-wiki report (take you to a
special page that had an explanation, with preferred solution being links to
add a new section to the talk page, for example), switching to an email to
OTRS in the case of a tagged BLP article.  This would require developer
support but might be a better balance.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com