Community health initiative/IdeaLab
From https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas/All
Directly related to our areas of focus
[edit]- Prevention / Policy
- Teach people to recognize and avoid committing harassment
- Zero Tolerance Policy
- Treat off-wiki harassment more seriously
- Comprehensive harassment and privacy policy
- More culture, less harassment (agreement voted on by community)
- Propose Wikimedia Code of Conduct (adapted from open source Contributor Covenant)
- Program coordinator training to handle disruptive behavior on-wiki (training)
- Detection
- Reporting
- Making it an option to 'flag' an editor, after which a moderator would come and see whether the user should be blocked
- Make it very easy to report harassment to an anti-harassment force
- Simplify ways to expose overly-subjective arguments violating WP:NPOV and WP:CIVIL, using "POV-.." and "UW-.." templates designed for discussion pages.
- Harrassment of Editors of an Article (talk page templates as reporting)
- Stop It Now! Button
- The Protection of Collaborative Information (anonymous reporting)
- way of reporting harassment from an admin
- Simpler, more accessible, feedback options. (buttons to report or rate comments)
- Require notification first to encourage editors to attempt to resolve things amicably before reporting them for a ban discussion
- Prompt and Quick Response to Reporting
- Confidential harassment support 24-7
- Evaluation
- An outside observer on the arbitration committee (Neotarf submission)
- Arbitration Tribunal
- Blocking
- Tactics
- Define Harassment before taking it head on.
- Reduce harassment by eliminating the power of elitist "editors" to harass and ban users. This power is frequently abused.
- Remove benefits of negative attention
- Study how current mechanisms handle harassment
- Fight against bullying, intimidation. (establish a new committee.)
- Require Apologies
- Study the gap with in-depth targeted interviews, not just statistics and crowdsourcing (similar to the research our team is doing)
- WMF support in administrative efforts of prevention of trolling and disruptive editing
- Stop political correctness as gauge
Interesting, but not directly related
[edit]- Area for topic banned editors to talk freely about their ban, e.g. to ask questions of experienced wikipedians
- Anti defamation and harassing biographies of living people
- Just Say No to Barbarians and Machismo! (civility barnstar)
- A place where the community can discuss administrator and arbitrator actions
- Video Chat makes harrassment harder.
- Watch your mouth (remove gender-charged vocabulary)
- Verify identity of the user & User Identification (require real names)
- Women have to make up at least 40% of admin in the arbcom and every other elected position
- Some ideas for avoid bullying among wikicolaborators (a better user profile would decrease bullying.)
- Reputation Points
- Slanderous denunciation (hire legally trained moderators)
- Slithering Agendas (place to discuss pages ‘owned’ by 1 unjust contributor)
- Term limits on adminship
- Reduce attack pages which get picked up by other sites
- Meow Meow filter (obfuscate & count vulgar words on talk pages)
- Take firmer stance on doxing (related to lobbying congress and law enforcement)
- Less power to the frustrated people
- Program coordinator training for disruptive behavior at in-person events
- Produce thought provoking but interesting videos on harassment for the people to watch
- Introduce reputation points and priveledges like in StackExchange
- Cross-account measures of uniqueness
- Build a properly con
Topically related but limited content
[edit]- Secret anti harassment group on whole internet and immediate police report with truth detector
- Get Administrators Under Control
- Bullying, So immature.
- Expose the harasser & suing for discrimination,stalking,using Vulgar language
- There must be admin to check and stop any harassment on wikimedia such as using of vulgar languages uploading of personal and private pictures is ruse for blackmailing purposee.
- what is your reason?
- Respect
- Security team
- Respect Respect Respect
- Referring harassment to the Police
- Technological harassment (If I’m reading this correctly, the user feels that the WMF releasing beta features is a form of harassment.)
- Rude Edit Summaries and Caustic Behavior towards newbies and other users
- Reveal the Unrevealed Harassment (no idea, just a ramble)
- Seriously consider why only some Wikimedia projects have harassment (bad idea: tell people to go somewhere else if they feel harassed. :-/
- Assessment of Cyber- Bullying tweens and young adults
- Teach people time-tested common sense methods for dealing with harassment, and give them tools to anonymize themselves and limit abusive contact. But don't give Wikipedia mandate to create a safe space
- Mail the person who has committed harassment
- People can create wiki only nicks
- Politeness and constructive argumentation
- How is abusive Wike behavior geographically distributed
- No more harassment!!
- Maybe a system that allow people to report harassment?
- Propose wikimedia code of conduct (adapted from open source contributor covenant)
- Jiweifu short list of ideas related to preventing harassment
- Helping any user in difficulty (short idea about automated reporting or request for help)
- If harassment is detected (either threatening harassment or Online Sexual Harassment, or (OSH) the person should be banned for 3 months light on detail
- Group or gang action against an editor needs more time-efficient final remedies
- Bring a light to shine onthe offender (short list of ideas to stop harassment/disruptive conduct without much detail)
- Harassment from Sysop must be treated by experts, not by sysop
- Crowd sourcing harassment prevention