On 3 June 2011 19:22, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > 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.
The English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee has variously (certainly in 2005-7 a couple of times) approached the Foundation about having WMF formally ban individuals from access to its online resources, modelled on the letters that shoplifters often get sent (at least in the UK), informing them that they are banned for life from the private property notwithstanding any public inducements to enter (or, in our world, use or interact with the services), and that failure to comply will result in action up to and including private prosecution for trespass. The bar would have to be seriously high for it to be worth our while (and just because the letter has been issued doesn't mean they magically go away), but in certain cases I think we should consider it. Yours, -- James D. Forrester [email protected] | [email protected] [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
