Hi Maggie,
On 01/30/2016 02:35 PM, Maggie Dennis wrote:
In the time I've worked at the Wikimedia Foundation, I have (unsurprisingly, given its reported prevalence) come across this kind of harassment in my work with Support and Safety (formerly Community Advocacy). There have been cases where perfectly harmless pictures of the individuals have been doctored to be sexualized and cases where existing pornographic pictures that were not the individual were selected and misattributed as being them. I have personally been involved in complaints of this happening to both men and women.
thank you for providing further insights. That is really concerning.
At the same time, a great majority of users do not publish photos of themselves, and don't publish their name (which would allow others to find available photos elsewhere), so it is still a mystery to me how this very high percentage can be explained.
Tobias