[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

Wed Jun 11 01:46:44 UTC 2008

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Huib Laurens wrote:
>> But i don't see the difference between wikistalking en cyberstalking.
>>
>>
> I view it as a subset, i.e. wikistalking is cyberstalking on a site that
> happens to be a wiki.
>
But then what is cyberstalking?  I've seen it applied to as little as
paying attention to the edits a particular editor makes.  Is it
wikistalking to gather evidence for an arbitration request?  The term
is quite obviously useless if it is.

The only definition of cyberstalking that I think makes sense is a
subset of stalking.  In fact, the Wikipedia article currently uses
that definition in the first sentence: "Cyberstalking is the use of
the Internet or other electronic means to stalk someone."

Of course, 99 times out of 100 I bet someone who uses the term
"wikistalking" isn't talking about actual stalking.