On 3 June 2011 11:22, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sue, the one thing that comes to mind is that the Foundation does have the > right to restrict access to private or non-public information and can decree > that a specific individual is banned from any position that permits access > to such information. (The data belongs to the WMF and therefore access to it > can be controlled by the WMF.) It is possible that this could extend as far > as use of the "email this user" feature for editors who have been shown to > abuse it, because those "non-public" emails travel through the WMF servers. > Again the WMF has the right to decree whether or not this is appropriate use > of WMF equipment. Neither of these issues are project-specific; they are > global in scope. > > I tend to agree with Kirill Lokshin about the ability of the WMF as a > service provider to restrict access to its property in a general sense, for > the very small number of individuals who have repeatedly abused their access > across several projects, or more directly by affecting Wikimedians by taking > "wiki-disputes" into other areas; my estimate would be that we're probably > talking fewer than a dozen people altogether over the past 10 years who > might meet this level of abuse.
Thanks Risker and everybody else. I'm going to need to duck out of this conversation -- I'm going into a long meeting. But so you know: we're talking about this here at the Foundation, and about the related issue of trolls/stalkers. Basically: how should bad actors be handled, and what are the Foundation's responsibilities and most useful role. This discussion is helpful, and if it continues, please know that a number of us here are paying attention :-) Thanks, Sue _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
