On 3 June 2011 13:11, Sue Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 June 2011 10:00, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Is there something the Foundation could do to support that happening? > > >
Sue, the one thing that comes to mind is that the Foundation does have the right to restrict access to private or non-public information and can decree that a specific individual is banned from any position that permits access to such information. (The data belongs to the WMF and therefore access to it can be controlled by the WMF.) It is possible that this could extend as far as use of the "email this user" feature for editors who have been shown to abuse it, because those "non-public" emails travel through the WMF servers. Again the WMF has the right to decree whether or not this is appropriate use of WMF equipment. Neither of these issues are project-specific; they are global in scope. I tend to agree with Kirill Lokshin about the ability of the WMF as a service provider to restrict access to its property in a general sense, for the very small number of individuals who have repeatedly abused their access across several projects, or more directly by affecting Wikimedians by taking "wiki-disputes" into other areas; my estimate would be that we're probably talking fewer than a dozen people altogether over the past 10 years who might meet this level of abuse. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
