Hi Tobias,
Like Maggie, I was not surprised that people (both men and women) were reporting revenge porn because I know of reports in the Wikimedia community, but like her I was surprised that this survey showed revenge porn being reported by this many people.
But it is not surprising that the people who experienced the worst types of harassment, or type that the WMF and wikimedia community is the least able to address would respond to this survey.
Without further verification, I would not suggest the 65% figure to be representative of the whole wikimedia community of people who are harassed. Most people understand that this type of survey sample would not produce results that are representative of the whole community.
But it does show an example of a type of extreme harassment that poorly understood by the community. This information can help educate the WMF and the wikimedia community, and hopefully will help find better ways of assisting the people being harassed.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Maggie Dennis mdennis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, Tobias.
The pictures may not be the individuals at all; they may be pornographic pictures of others that are misattributed. And sometimes the attribution is not to a real name, but to their usernames. In all cases, the intent seems to be to humiliate and hurt the target. Sometimes the goal seems to be to drive them away.
Of course, I don't know the stories of all the respondents who selected that - not even a substantial percentage of them. I was surprised by the prevalence, too, but maybe not as surprised as you given what I *have* seen in nearly 5 years of working in this area at the WMF. People try all different kinds of ways to try to hurt each other, and sexualized attacks of one kind or another are sadly really common.
Best,
Maggie
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Tobias church.of.emacs.ml@googlemail.com wrote:
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
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