Community health initiative/IdeaLab

From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas/All 

Directly related to our areas of focus

• Prevention / Policy
  • Teach people to recognize and avoid committing harassment
  • Zero Tolerance Policy
  • Treat off-wiki harassment more seriously
  • Comprehensive harassment and privacy policy
  • More culture, less harassment (agreement voted on by community)
  • Propose Wikimedia Code of Conduct (adapted from open source Contributor Covenant)
  • Program coordinator training to handle disruptive behavior on-wiki (training)
• Detection
  • Cumulate Likes and Unlikes to automatise harassment limitations
  • the kindness patrol.
  • Controversy monitoring engine
  • Machine learning to analyze and block content with harassment (light on detail but links to other similar ideas)
  • Filter checker like stack overflow for contributes and moderators alike
• Reporting
  • Making it an option to 'flag' an editor, after which a moderator would come and see whether the user should be blocked
  • Make it very easy to report harassment to an anti-harassment force
  • Simplify ways to expose overly-subjective arguments violating WP:NPOV and WP:CIVIL, using "POV-.." and "UW-.." templates designed for discussion pages.
  • Harrassment of Editors of an Article (talk page templates as reporting)
  • Stop It Now! Button
  • The Protection of Collaborative Information (anonymous reporting)
  • way of reporting harassment from an admin
  • Simpler, more accessible, feedback options. (buttons to report or rate comments)
  • Require notification first to encourage editors to attempt to resolve things amicably before reporting them for a ban discussion
  • Prompt and Quick Response to Reporting
  • Confidential harassment support 24-7
• Evaluation
  • An outside observer on the arbitration committee (Neotarf submission)
  • Arbitration Tribunal
• Blocking
  • Allow blocking or muting of users, and grow up
  • Allow users to restrict who can send them email
  • User separation filter for harassing couples
  • Severe punishments for harassers
  • Smart Blocking
  • Log of administrative abuse and penalties be created
  • Blocking and IP bans
  • Permanent IP bans
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• Tactics
  • Define Harassment before taking it head on.
  • Reduce harassment by eliminating the power of elitist "editors" to harass and ban users. This power is frequently abused.
  • Remove benefits of negative attention
  • Study how current mechanisms handle harassment
  • Fight against bullying, intimidation. (establish a new committee.)
  • Require Apologies
  • Study the gap with in-depth targeted interviews, not just statistics and crowdsourcing  (similar to the research our team is doing)
  • WMF support in administrative efforts of prevention of trolling and disruptive editing
  • Stop political correctness as gauge

Interesting, but not directly related

• Area for topic banned editors to talk freely about their ban, e.g. to ask questions of experienced wikipedians
• Anti defamation and harassing biographies of living people
• Just Say No to Barbarians and Machismo! (civility barnstar)
• A place where the community can discuss administrator and arbitrator actions
• Video Chat makes harrassment harder.
• Watch your mouth (remove gender-charged vocabulary)
• Verify identity of the user & User Identification (require real names)
  • Remove anonymity for problem editor
• Women have to make up at least 40% of admin in the arbcom and every other elected position
• Some ideas for avoid bullying among wikicolaborators (a better user profile would decrease bullying.)
• Reputation Points
• Slanderous denunciation (hire legally trained moderators)
• Slithering Agendas (place to discuss pages ‘owned’ by 1 unjust contributor)
• Term limits on adminship
• Reduce attack pages which get picked up by other sites
• Meow Meow filter (obfuscate & count vulgar words on talk pages)
• Take firmer stance on doxing (related to lobbying congress and law enforcement)
• Less power to the frustrated people
• Program coordinator training for disruptive behavior at in-person events
• Produce thought provoking but interesting videos on harassment for the people to watch
• Introduce reputation points and priveledges like in StackExchange
• Cross-account measures of uniqueness
• Build a properly con 

Topically related but limited content

• Secret anti harassment group on whole internet and immediate police report with truth detector
• Get Administrators Under Control
• Bullying, So immature.
• Expose the harasser & suing for discrimination,stalking,using Vulgar language
• There must be admin to check and stop any harassment on wikimedia such as using of vulgar languages uploading of personal and private pictures is ruse for blackmailing purposee.
• what is your reason?
• Respect
• Security team
• Respect Respect Respect
• Referring harassment to the Police
• Technological harassment (If I’m reading this correctly, the user feels that the WMF releasing beta features is a form of harassment.)
• Rude Edit Summaries and Caustic Behavior towards newbies and other users
• Reveal the Unrevealed Harassment (no idea, just a ramble)
• Seriously consider why only some Wikimedia projects have harassment (bad idea: tell people to go somewhere else if they feel harassed. :-/
• Assessment of Cyber- Bullying tweens and young adults
• Teach people time-tested common sense methods for dealing with harassment, and give them tools to anonymize themselves and limit abusive contact. But don't give Wikipedia mandate to create a safe space
• Mail the person who has committed harassment
• People can create wiki only nicks
• Politeness and constructive argumentation
• How is abusive Wike behavior geographically distributed
• No more harassment!!
• Maybe a system that allow people to report harassment?
• Propose wikimedia code of conduct (adapted from open source contributor covenant)
• Jiweifu short list of ideas related to preventing harassment
• Helping any user in difficulty (short idea about automated reporting or request for help)
• If harassment is detected (either threatening harassment or Online Sexual Harassment, or (OSH) the person should be banned for 3 months light on detail
• Group or gang action against an editor needs more time-efficient final remedies
• Bring a light to shine onthe  offender (short list of ideas to stop harassment/disruptive conduct without much detail)
• Harassment from Sysop must be treated by experts, not by sysop
• Crowd sourcing harassment prevention