[Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Christine Meyer
I've heard about this kind of thing happening to other women in Wikipedia, but this is the first time this has ever happened to me personally. A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a guy who said he wanted to talk to me about what it was like being the parent of children with special needs.

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Roberta Flod
My experience from hr wiki. On hr:wiki it is common fact that I am female and on commons there are my photos to confirm that fact. I have also more times appeared on television talking about Wikipedia. In public I always used only my nickname Roberta F. My user page was vandalized in ugly ways

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Javier Bassi
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Christine Meyer christinewme...@gmail.com wrote: I've heard about this kind of thing happening to other women in Wikipedia, but this is the first time this has ever happened to me personally.  A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from a guy who said he wanted to

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Béria Lima
Cristina, I will not try to give you any advice on this. But what I do in those cases (I already received lots of threaning e-mails and some phone calls - also several wiki-attacks) and basically what I do is inform the ISP (in case when I know the IP adress) or block any call from that number

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Lika Tika
Hi Christine, I'm so sorry this happened to you. Unfortunately, something similar happened to me not long ago (although not related to Wikimedia). If you need any help taking your personal information offline, please let me know, I'm more than happy to help. Have you let the wiki admins know, it

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Risker
Likewise, Christine, I stand ready to assist you. I'd suggest that yes, you reconsider how much personal information you want to share about yourself online; remember, Wikipedia userpages aren't just on Wikipedia, they're spidered all over the web. Once the information is out there, it's

Re: [Gendergap] WP stalking

2011-11-13 Thread Nina Wikipedia
I have got some calls about Wikipedia. I was in the board in Wikimedia Norway some years and president 1 year and got calls for journalists and other people those years. The last call I got about 1 week ago was from a woman who wanted to use one of my pictures in a book and ask me if it is ok.