[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

Mon Jun 9 08:26:21 UTC 2008

When we talk about real out-of-wiki harassment, we should also keep in mind
that the experts here are really the police.  We should be encouraging
victims to reach out to the authorities for help, and not pretend that a
community of volunteer editors can really solve these problems.

I assume the Foundation already has a policy of assisting the police in such
investigations as necessary.
-Robert Rohde

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>
> > Greg;
> >
> > Thanks for your concerns. I believe that the Foundation should
> > take the step of affirming that they will not stand for stalking
> > of users, not necessaily a huge banhammer. The group of users
> > would be more productive in hunting down and bringing justice to
> > the stalkers.
>
>
> I'm not sure what exactly you mean with "will not stand for". But
> as I think Greg implied, it is a problem if the WMF opens up to
> abuse of any such protection.  When people "cry wolf", how do we
> know if that is a real case of stalking or not?  Is there a way?
> Who is an expert on how to deal with stalking?  Can they write
> down some useful guidelines?  Can we teach admins and stewards on
> this?  Or is [[Wikipedia:Harassment]] fine already, with its
> recommendation that the harassed user should act calmly?
>
> The article [[stalking]] begins with five message boxes requesting
> neutrality, improvement and input from experts.
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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