Hoi,
We regularly have problems with people. We have people who are banned
because people think they are problematic. We have banned people who have
contributed hugely to our projects. The notion that it is stigmatising is a
notion whereby we wash our hands in innocence, we do not want to know.
It is one thing that you personally are grossed out but I hope you
understand that given that this is an issue we need to address. It is not
only people who do not care for rules, it is also the people who obsess
about rules. You find it in the excessive attention for Clarice Phelps.
People do get hurt, people do get traumatised because of this inattention.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 17:58, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> There's this study
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Construction_and_Application_of_Personality_Profile_Based_on_User_Behavior_in_Wikipedia
> >
> but I don't know if it was ever completed (and as you can infer from my
> posts on the talkpage, I very much hope it was NOT).
>
> In general, any kind of psychometric profiling of Wikipedia editors kind of
> grosses me out. But as an armchair psychologist myself, as well as a
> non-neurotypical individual, sure I'm happy to hypothesize that there are
> many of us in the projects. It takes a certain mindset to find the process
> of building an encyclopedia using 20-year old software paradigms to be
> engaging ;)
>
> - J
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 8:49 AM RhinosF1 - <rhino...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Evening all,
> >
> > I hope everyone is doing well given the crazy world we’re living in.
> >
> > I was having a conversation with a few users on Discord today and we were
> > wondering whether wikimedia (or users of other similiar sites would be
> > fine) disproportinately fall into the category of having aspergers, ADHD
> > and other simmilar conditions.
> >
> > It would be even better if anyone knew what sort of areas these users
> were
> > more likely to work in.
> >
> > Following a chat with Issac in #wikimedia-research, I understand there
> > isn’t much support for this kind of research as users may not want to
> > reveal this information and there is no clear reason for collecting the
> > information but if anyone knows of past research or has any information,
> > that would be helpful.
> >
> > Stay Safe,
> > RhinosF1
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Samuel
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