I think the closest thing we have with these capabilities is the Wikimedia
OTRS system:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS

Specific queues can be customized in many ways, I believe, though others
will know more about this.

Thanks,
Pharos


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Moriel Schottlender <mor...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>>> ​Janine, ​
>> Ryan, Pete and Moriel, these are great ideas.
>> ​I love the idea of a button that anyone can press to send an alert to a
>> Wikiquette team. How can an idea like this be moved forward? There could be
>> different levels of urgency (low: general incivility; medium: sexism,
>> racism, homophobia; high: harassment, outing, threats).
>>
>
> In the forum, we made it so that while no one sees the report publicly,
> the moderators do see the name (or user name) of the reporter (we don't
> share that outside the moderation team, though)
>
> We found that this helps us mediate problems of harassment-by-reporting
> and to spot potential underlying issues with a repeat offender. So, for
> example, we can recognize when a user consistently over-reports another
> user for no reason (or petty reasons) which can also be harassment.
>
> I'm not sure if this is possible in Wikipedia itself, we might want to see
> if we need another tool just for that.
>
> Do you think that having to use an external tool is realistic for a
> Wikipedia group, though?
> We use external tools for development (like bugzilla) but I am not sure
> what the reaction would be for something like this when an on-wiki team is
> involved.
> (I might be missing an option of having this semi-closed/hidden space
> on-wiki)
>
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