On May 23, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
On 23 May 2014 13:05, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
Is the following a full statement of Wikipedia's Child Protection Policy, reflecting all responsibilities that the Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation have taken on to protect children in all of the projects they are involved with and/or sponsor?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection
Are there any other *published* policies of WP or the WMF pertaining to child protection that I might have missed?
I know that this is a very politically charged issue in the WP community. I'd appreciate a high light:heat ratio if anyone has comments beyond links to current policy statements.
Thanks! ,Wil
English Wikipedia policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection
The existence of a 'formalized' policy has been a topic of heated debate since its creation, although there is some truth that its original form more or less documented existing practice at the time.
Risker/Anne
Right.
I can guarantee you that the policy more or less as written will be implemented by most senior experienced admins. It documented existing very poorly publicized informal practice in that regard.
There is and has been much controversy as to whether it's good, fair, reasonable, appropriate.
As with the responding to threats of harm essay (originally responding to threats of suicide, now expanded), there were considerable theory based top down discussions that did not resolve, followed by someone documenting what was actually being done most of the time and that settling is as precedent.
This is perhaps not the best process. However, even in the absence of total community support on these issues, admins and arbcom and senior community members will act to protect individual people and the community and encyclopedia and foundation. It seems to be agreed that documenting usual parameters for that, so people understand the usual responses, was a net positive.
-george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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