I have got some calls about Wikipedia. I was in the board in Wikimedia Norway some years and president 1 year and got calls for journalists and other people those years. The last call I got about 1 week ago was from a woman who wanted to use one of my pictures in a book and ask me if it is ok. In Norway you only need to have a persons name to get the number : http://www.gulesider.no/person/resultat/nina+Aldin+Thune I have never told much about my family in the userpages. http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruker:Nina , https://plus.google.com/109860657201319190669/about only that I am housewife, and mother .
Those calls have never been a problem, but I can understand that it could be, so as Risker/Anne says «reconsider how much personal information you want to share about yourself online» and ask someone get stuff taken down. Nina nina.wikipe...@gmail.com Den 14. nov. 2011 kl. 00:58 skrev Risker: > Likewise, Christine, I stand ready to assist you. I'd suggest that yes, you > reconsider how much personal information you want to share about yourself > online; remember, Wikipedia userpages aren't just on Wikipedia, they're > spidered all over the web. Once the information is out there, it's difficult > to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak. > > Nonetheless, if you'd like help trying to get stuff taken down, let me know. > > Risker/Anne > > > On 13 November 2011 18:47, Lika Tika <likatikalikat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christine, > > I'm so sorry this happened to you. Unfortunately, something similar happened > to me not long ago (although not related to Wikimedia). If you need any help > taking your personal information offline, please let me know, I'm more than > happy to help. > > Have you let the wiki admins know, it might be a good idea. > > All the best to you. > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Christine Meyer <christinewme...@gmail.com> > wrote: > I've heard about this kind of thing happening to other women in Wikipedia, > but this is the first time this has ever happened to me personally. A few > weeks ago, I got a phone call from a guy who said he wanted to talk to me > about what it was like being the parent of children with special needs. He > also said that he got my number from my church, so I told him that I was busy > at the moment (which I was) and that he could call me back later. > > Yesterday afternoon, he called me back. I asked him where he got my number > and how he found out about my parenting status. He said that he read what I > had written on Wikipedia about my children, and that he wanted to talk to me > about it because he was also developmentally disabled and had some "syndrome" > that I didn't recognize. (It wasn't Asberger's, I don't think.) He also > said that he had gotten my number from "some church thing," and that they had > confirmed my phone number. > > I told him that it was very inappropriate for him to call me, and he said, > "Well, you said I could call you back!" I answered that I was in the middle > of something the first time he called me, repeated how inappropriate he was > being, and that I wasn't willing to speak with him over the phone. He said, > "You said all that on Wikipedia," and I said that I didn't have my phone > number there, to which he responded, "But your email address is there," and I > said he could email me but calling me was again, inappropriate, and we hung > up. > > Like I said, it was the first time something like this has happened, even > after more than four years of active participation in WP. It's somewhat > disconcerting to me. When I think about it, this guy had to actively hunt > down my phone number. He looked at my userpage, which has infoboxes stating > that I'm a parent of two children with developmental disabilities, that I > live in a small town in Idaho, and that I'm Catholic. (This makes me want to > remove those infoboxes.) He actually went to the trouble of calling one of > the the two Catholic churches in my town and confirm my number with them, > which they did quite honestly because I'm on a church committee and active in > the community. Freaky, huh? > > I know that you need to tell people when something like this happens, > especially people in your life. (I haven't been able to tell my husband > about it yet; he's been working all weekend and we're coming off of a > particularly stressful family situation.) So that's what I'm doing now. I > can totally see why so many women don't identify their gender on WP now. I'd > also like to get some advice from the members of this list, and to see if > anyone else has had a similar experience and what they did about it. > > Thanks, > Christine > -- > Christine W. Meyer > User: Figureskatingfan > christinewme...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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