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

Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm cites the following pages as guides:

Current Response Structures

Wikipedia: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
meta: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, Commons: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

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 OR drohowa and bluerasberry
Gender-gap admin training, proposed by Xttina.Garnet, SlimVirgin, QEDK, ACrockford, Data crusader Britneyfan07, and Shrutisaxena75
Gender Gap Ombudsman, proposed by Spaceanddeath
Against toxicity, proposed byRaystorm
End Sexism and Intolerance on Wikipedia, proposed byDaniellagreen, Xttina.Garnet, Piano cake
Enforce civility, proposed by 209.122.114.237, Wowee Zowee public
WMF support in administrative efforts of prevention of trolling and disruptive editing, proposed by Abiyoyo
Stop discriminating them, proposed by RoRo
Study the gap with in-depth targeted interviews, not just statistics and crowdsourcing, proposed by Mrevan
Resources favored by women, proposed by Marshallsumter
A Consciousness Raising Repository, proposed by Radfordj
Comprehensive harassment and privacy policy, proposed by Neotarf
Require Apologies, proposed by Beauxlieux, Supaiku
Grants:IdeaLab/Wikipedia Gender Concerns Reporting Tools, proposed by QEDK, Djembayz, Snowycats

Other Proposals

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.