Training modules/Keeping events safe/slides/situations-you-might-encounter

Situations you might encounter

Even though all efforts should be made to ensure that events are safe spaces for contributors to meet, congregate, and collaborate, there may be instances where you may experience or observe situations that may make you or others feel uncomfortable. Such situations may include but are not limited to:

• Unclear safe spaces violations. These consist of commentary or actions that are not inappropriate or abusive unless considered within a specific, existing context. They may also be things that, while unnoticed by some, can be quite alienating for others.
• Minor to moderate safe spaces violations. These are usually inappropriate comments, on-wiki arguments becoming a hostile or heated in-person debate, or inappropriate content that may be displayed in a presentation. These violations may or may not always be intentionally designed to upset others.
• Major safe spaces violations. These are situations where someone experiences a great deal of stress or feels threatened because of abusive conduct such as targeted harassment, explicit verbal personal attacks, implicit physical or sexual threats, or repeated unwanted actions after an explicit request to stop.
• Locally or globally banned users. Some potential attendees are not permitted to attend events at all. This could be because of a local ban (for example people who have caused problems at chapter events), an event ban, or a global ban issued by the Wikimedia Foundation. If you become aware of such a banned individual being present at an event, this is a friendly space violation and should be reported to the event organizing team. This is true even if you personally don't feel immediately threatened by the individual.
• Critical safety violations. Those can include physical or sexual assault.
• Medical emergencies. Even though a medical emergency may not necessarily be the result of altercations with another person at the event, it should be treated as a matter of priority by the event organizing team.