On 8 September 2011 17:28, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I am speaking as a steward, I have to say that it's very good news > for us. Instead of being harassed because not dealing with harassment, > since the implementation of ToS that would be WMF's job. That's really > good news for stewards!
The purpose of the new TOS is to support the community, not to take over its work. Geoff and members of the Community department have been speaking recently with community members who are concerned about harassment on the wikis, about what kinds of actions we might collectively take to help prevent it. Making it clear that harassment is against the rules seems like an obvious step, and indeed I've seen research that suggests an inverse relationship between sites that have a TOS that prohibits harassment, and incidents of harassment on those sites. [1] Explicitly and publicly forbidding harassment on the wikis is a pretty basic and straightforward thing to do. Thanks, Sue [1] I wish I had that study at hand, but I don't. I found it, I think, through a Google Scholar search related to danah boyd. The researcher was an expert in online harassment, either at Berkman or maybe MIT. -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
