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"support the development of tools for volunteer editors and staff to reduce harassment on Wikipedia and block harassers." The only harassment I've seen on Wiki
by redsummer 10y ago
"support the development of tools for volunteer editors and staff to reduce harassment on Wikipedia and block harassers."
The only harassment I've seen on Wikipedia is from Little Napoleon long-term admins who grind contributors down with petty bureaucracy.
- swayvil 10y agoThis has been my experience also.
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- chris_wot 10y agoYou might want to review the debacle that was the Salim Mehajer article then.
- nl 10y agoDo you have a reference? I'm interested.
- 542458 10y agoI think this is the incident in question: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-May/084230.html https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-May/0... There's a summary here, but it rather understates the whole thing - read the above link first if you have time: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-editor-says-sites...
- nl 10y agoThanks. That's... wow. I assumed it was something about the subject of the article getting involved in harassment, but it doesn't seem to be. I'm glad that the author got some help.