Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Ideas/Addressing harassment
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.
last updated: 3 June 2016
I'd like to advocate and reason against with any drastic action by wikimedia foundation.
Tackling this issue in the wrong way will work to destroy the impartiality of wiki, since claims of harassment are often weaponized as political tools and a form of harassment.
As bad as harassment itself. But now its also wiki's fault. Both when it happens and when its stopped. Nobody's happy. Everything become's wiki's fault. And the foundation starts actively being gamed to favour one side in an issue as both race to become more harassed. The only way to deal with the issue is to empower users to remain as anonymous as they'd like, and maybe refuse contact from abusive people.
People learning to have a thicker skin is integral to combating harassment, not creating a safe space. No space can be proofed to the extent the people you're pandering to will demand and if it can, it will require the gutting of wiki's stance on free speech and impartiality.
created by: User:Moiz Rafay
We need Families
last updated: 3 June 2016
I think that the harassment issue can only be solved by counseling the users. Families should be made inside Wikipedia community as it is not possible to council every user. When a user joins the community, user should be welcomed by its family. Every family should be headed by an administrator and should not be more then 10 members. There must be Rules for administrators to control their family, family head (Admin) should be able to block it's family members. Any user who is harassed must tell his/her family members to support him/her. To keep this system running, Monthly Awards should be given to the Best Family with an increase in the power of the members of that family.
created by: User: Muhammadahmad79
Stop "Political Correctness" as gauge!
last updated: 3 June 2016
One should not forget that this is about virtualharassment in virtual contacts, and nopersonal interaction. There is growing sensibility for perceived harassment and growing preparedness for bureaucratic retaliation with increasing level in the hierarchy, in my perception. So my main suggestion is to simply lower sensitivity for triggering harassment alarms.
At any price I'd like to see voting systemsavoided.
created by: User:Purgy Purgatorio
Don't feed the trolls
last updated: 3 June 2016
Encourage editors not to over-react to harassment.
created by: User:Thewellman
I wish people couldn't censor unpopular viewpoints simply to pander to top politicians and their wishy washy beliefs on social progress.
last updated: 3 June 2016
created by: User:HighEnergyWaifuMan
Block function
last updated: 3 June 2016
Add a blocking function to reduce potential abuse and harassment.
created by: User:MorbidEntree
Small Wikis need more help in this matter
last updated: 3 June 2016
Administrator's behavior is an important thing for the growth of small Wikis.
created by: User:Randeerjayasekara
Trust point system
last updated: 3 June 2016
Keep a hidden tally of votes for or against users (based on edit revert frequency and user votes) used to gate pages by controversy.
created by: User:Conscious Code
Evaluate Wikipedia's guides to address people with personal/political agendas better
last updated: 3 June 2016
Wikipedia's user guides and promotional department should address people with personal/political agendas better
created by: User:DivaNtrainin
Define Harassment before taking it head on.
last updated: 3 June 2016
We first need to define what harassment is before we try to tackle it.
created by: User:Ahmer Jamil Khan
Accept that this is beyond our ability to fix
last updated: 3 June 2016
Attempting to address harassment on Wikipedia noble effort, to be sure, but you are attempting to take on human nature, and unless Wikipedia is rebuilt in such a way as to place the emphasis on the community than on the content all of this is essentially a waste of 30 days.
created by: User:TomStar81
wiki contact with google translator get better translation
last updated: 3 June 2016
created by: User:Azeez Safdar
train reviewers to become ambassadors
last updated: 3 June 2016
AfC and New Page Patrol are broken processes. new editors are greeted with an impersonal wall of rejection.
created by: User:Slowking4
Treat off-wiki harassment more seriously
last updated: 3 June 2016
A spammer that I blocked posting external links on Wikipedia ended up creating a harassment website under a URL titled after my real name; Wikipedia functionaries and WMF legal washed their hands.
created by: User:Fgnievinski
Create "conduct administrators" with some trivial power to slow down or soft ban mean people
last updated: 1 June 2016
Grant people with a record of good conduct towards others the ability to do something mildly bad to those with bad conduct, like slow down their ability to edit or ban them for an hour, or something.
created by: User:Dingsuntil
Create one or more salaried positions of Wiki Therapeutist/Councelor
last updated: 1 June 2016
Hire professional(s) who could counsel editors feeling wiki-stress. Show them they are not alone, and that they are appreciated!
created by: User:Piotrus
Anonymity - Aliases
last updated: 1 June 2016
Hide user names or ids and use aliases so that no particular person can be identified.
created by: User:196.15.16.100
Engage the public to get involved by putting consistent banners on all projects
last updated: 1 June 2016
Big wiki? Not enough helpers? Overwhelmed? We could just engage the readers.
created by: User:Gryllida
Add ignore functionality
last updated: 1 June 2016
I would like the wiki to have a function to ignore messages from certain people whom I find abusive.
created by: User:Gryllida
Reduce attack pages which get picked up by other sites
last updated: 31 May 2016
Attack pages are deleted quickly within Wikipedia but not quickly enough to keep them from being copied to third-party sites where they not just exist as harassment but may appear to be harassment associated with Wikipedia.
created by: User:Sphilbrick
Program coordinator training to handle disruptive behavior on-wiki
last updated: 31 May 2016
The goal of this idea is to develop a program helping individuals leading or coordinating these programs to navigate considerations and actions to take when faced with disruptive behavior from one or multiple editors.
created by: User:I JethroBT (WMF)
Propose Code of Conduct (adapted from open source Contributor Covenant)
last updated: 31 May 2016
Use existing code-of-conduct model to align our community norms and prohibitions on harmful behavior with thousands of other open source communiteies.
created by: User:Ocaasi (WMF)
Cumulate Likes and Unlikes to automatise harassment limitations
last updated: 31 May 2016
The rate of "Like" and "Unlike" permit to adjust and to automatise delays between edits from an harasser.
created by: User:Rical
Program coordinator training for disruptive behavior at in-person events
last updated: 11 March 2016
This idea will describe a plan on how to engage and handle instances of problematic behavior at in-person events funded by the WMF or its grant programs.
created by: User:PEarley (WMF)