User:Hexatekin/draft/Meta:Grants:IdeaLab/community discussion on harassment reporting

There are many current proposals as part of the 2015 Inspire Campaign related to harassment management. This page is meant to serve as a central space where the various stakeholders in these proposals and other community members can discuss which methods might serve our community best so that we can unify our ideas into collective action.

Current Policies

 * Terms of Use
 * Privacy policy
 * Harassment
 * Wikihounding
 * Legal threats


 * Posting of personal information
 * Private correspondence
 * User space harassment
 * Off-wiki harassment


 * Responding to threats of harm cites the following pages as guides:
 * Avoiding harm
 * Don't stuff beans up your nose
 * Ignore all rules
 * Threats of violence
 * What Wikipedia is not
 * WikiHate
 * Template:Suicide response

Current Response Structures

 * Responding to threats of harm
 * OTRS, w:Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team -
 * Template:Suicide response
 * A behind the scenes look at the Wikimedia Foundation’s emergency response system
 * Ombudsman commission, a global Wikimedia Foundation Committee that investigates violations of the WMF privacy policy, in particular the use of checkuser tool, and reports the results to the WMF Legal Department. A fairly recent RFC on meta supported expanding their role. The Board of Trustee and WMF need to make the changes to policy to make this happen.
 * Example report of Ombudsman Comm


 * Biography of living people resolution, a global policy passed by a WMF Board of trustees, The Wikipedia English BLP policy addresses the removal of unsubstantiated derogatory information or undisclosed private information anywhere on Wikipedia English unless it is backed by reliable sources or made public by the person.
 * Suppression, Oversighters/Handbook, Suppression (formerly called oversight) is approved for use in four cases:
 * Removal of non-public personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses, workplaces or identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have not made their identity public, or of public individuals who have not made that personal information public.
 * Removal of potentially libelous information either, on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel or when the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.
 * Removal of copyright violations on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel.
 * Hiding of blatant attack names on automated lists and logs, where this does not disrupt edit histories. A blatant attack is one obviously intended to denigrate, threaten, libel, insult, or harass someone.

Community Claims

 * The Terms of Use do not allow harassment, but harassment is not defined, and sexual harassment is not addressed at all.
 * It is not spelled out anywhere who is responsible for enforcing the Terms of Use.
 * The WMF has a formal privacy policy, but does not have means of enforcing it.
 * The WMF currently only responds substantially to immediate threats of harm.
 * There is no redress for off-site harassment that has its basis in Wikipedia other than communities mediating their own harassment.
 * [Put a claim here]

Research on harassment on Wikipedia

 * General background on risks for women on Wikipedia and the Internet
 * [Add links to research to support the notion that there is harassment on Wikipedia here]

Needs of an effective response

 * International
 * Multilingual
 * Intersectionalist, LGBT friendly
 * Structures to alleviate emotional labor of project managers
 * Structures to protect project managers against trolling caused by publicness of this project
 * [Put other needs here]

Harassment Management Proposals in the 2015 Inspire Campaign

 * Centralised harassment reporting and referral service, proposed by and
 * Gender-gap admin training, proposed by, , , , , and
 * Gender Gap Ombudsman, proposed by
 * Against toxicity, proposed by
 * End Sexism and Intolerance on Wikipedia, proposed by, ,
 * Enforce civility, proposed by ,
 * WMF support in administrative efforts of prevention of trolling and disruptive editing, proposed by
 * Stop discriminating them, proposed by
 * Study the gap with in-depth targeted interviews, not just statistics and crowdsourcing, proposed by
 * Resources favored by women, proposed by
 * A Consciousness Raising Repository, proposed by
 * Comprehensive harassment and privacy policy, proposed by
 * Require Apologies, proposed by ,
 * Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia Gender Concerns Reporting Tools, proposed by, ,

Other Proposals

 * Meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Develop a peer-to-peer counseling forum
 * Meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Community Leadership Mentoring
 * Meta:Grants:IdeaLab/Gender-gap admin training

Testimonies and Comment

 * "Harassment via Wikipedia Vandalism." June 10, 2012.
 * http://wikipediawehaveaproblem.com/
 * "The Affective Labor of Wikipedia: GamerGate, Harassment, and Peer Production." February 1, 2015.
 * "Gamergate, Harassment, and Wikipedia panel." Capilano University, March 2015. Su-Laine Yeo Brodsky.
 * "Women and Wikipedia: Perspectives on the gender gap, harassment, and the Gamergate controversy." Su-Laine Yeo Brodsky.


 * "My Wikipedia editing experience." Slashdot.org
 * "How often do female writers on Wikipedia get insulted harassed etc. compared to those on Quora."