Hi Lightbreather -
I know I haven't been very active lately (I wound up with sepsis,) but I am
sorry to see you go. I'm not very familiar with the on-wiki side of what
happened to you, but I think it should be an urgent priority for WMF to
develop better tools (and a culture that uses them) to
Due to off-wiki harassment, I have retired. Thank you to those of you who
have been friendly with me over the past year.
Lightbreather
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Sorry to hear that you were ill, and thank you for the kind thoughts.
Lightbreather
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lightbreather -
I know I haven't been very active lately (I wound up with sepsis,) but I
am sorry to see you go. I'm not very
On 5/26/2015 8:35 PM, LB wrote:
Due to off-wiki harassment, I have retired. Thank you to those of you
who have been friendly with me over the past year.
Lightbreather
Plus all that on-wiki harassment!
I did notice something interesting and actually positive in
Lightbreather's arbitration,
Totally understandable. I too have also been sexually harassed and doxxed,
on at least two other sites besides WP. The ArbCom and the WMF are well
aware of it, and have been unwilling to lift a finger against it.
There is a book about cyber harassment making the rounds: Hate Crimes in
This might also be a good time to mention the conversation about harassment
on the recent Inspire grant project. Fourteen of the proposals were
concerned with managing harassment. I don't believe I ever saw anyone from
the Foundation comment on this.
There is a tendency to ascribe a great deal of power to the Arbitration
Committee of English Wikipedia - and of the various arbitration committees,
it is the one with the greatest scope and perceived power. In fact, Arbcom
has almost no ability to manage the world outside of the pages of the
