Excellent point. I agree that it's not inappropriate to be visible as a
woman, but it's about privacy and safety. I know men who as a rule don't
put out personal information on the internet for similar reasons. Maybe
I've gone to the other extreme by removing my infoboxes from my userpage,
and
Wow, did everybody here just blame the victim? “If you had done x this
wouldn't have happened.” No. This is exactly the point that keeps women from
participating in everything, incluiding being visible in Wikipedia and talking
openly about their interests!
It was inappropriate of the guy to
Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. This really is a great list
and I appreciate your support.
I'm fairly confident that this isn't going to be as serious as the horrible
experiences others have had with WP stalking. I suspect that all it is is
some clueless guy with very little social
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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