On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Dror Kamir <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there people who would like to help me collect such cases like those > of Astrology, Kosovo, the Middle East etc. and/or cases that were sent > to arbitration which didn't help much and the like, and productively > analyze them in order to think of better ways to treat them and the > users involve? I am going to talk about the issue on Wikimania 2011 (in > Haifa), but there is no reason to wait. I believe that this is one of > the major reason why potential users are reluctant to join and new users > are driven out.
I don't mean to minimise the importance of keeping our established users happy and free from harassment, but I want to caution against the biases that we will undoubtedly have in considering our focus. Anecdotally, we tend to hear a lot more about established users picking up and leaving, because these are our friends — we work with them, chat with them on IRC, and whatever else. But for every story we hear about an established user leaving because of harassment, there are ten new-ish users who encounter the same hostile environment and stop editing without all the pomp and ceremony that necessarily accompanies the departure of a popular or well-known member of the community. So let's make sure we deal with the factors that make our overall editing environment conducive to hostile conduct. I don't want to see us fall into the trap of thinking only about long-term established users who are harassed in the long term, rather than the newer users who don't get a chance to be harassed in the long term because they pick up and leave straight away. -- Andrew Garrett http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
