> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:foundation-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Yaroslav M. Blanter > Sent: 03 June 2011 18:05 > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister? > > > > > I too would like to see the development of a process for global > banning > of > > users who have created serious problems on either the global or the > > multiple-project level. > > > > Risker/Anne > > I see your reasoning, but I also see at least two serious deficiencies: > > 1) Some projects explicitly rejected the community ban after extensive > discussion; > 2) Any meta-discussion of the community ban would be inevitably > dominated > by the English Wikipedia users (and thus may be unacceptable for those > projects which rejected the community ban). > > Cheers > Yaroslav >
These should be surmountable. First the grounds for a global ban ought to be limited. Where users have engaged in activity which goes beyond trolling and disruption towards illegality, or the type of harassment that has real-life consequences, or endangers vulnerable people, then a global hard ban should be considered - which overrides any local agreements to the contrary. In cases where the user has simply disrupted two or more projects then a presumptive ban would be more appropriate - that is the user cannot participate in any further community without specific local consent. (That stops the dumping problem.) What you need is a mechanism so that one local community, when banning a user who meets the criteria, can refer the case to a cross-project review group for a global decision. This group needs to be loaded so that en.wp cannot dominate - and that other projects can have confidence that this is the case. It might simply be a conclave of stewards, or it could be a group with each member nominated by a different project. Scott _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
