Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipediatrolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread dancase
>Why not go a step further, and allow people to specifically permit which users >can contact them by e-mail? Anyone else can contact them on their talkpage, >the preferred method of communication in any case. I, too, give a big +1 to this specifically and the concept in general. Admins already

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread Nathan
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:44 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > Christophe, Carol and Fae's notes have set me thinking as to what we could > do with these funds, > > One of the areas that I understand has been a problem is email harassment, > particularly of women and I

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread Chris "Jethro" Schilling
Some of these ideas were advanced in the last Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment by User:BethNaught: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Allow_users_to_restrict_who_can_send_them_email If folks want to work on developing this idea for out more concretely, they can use this

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread Ryan Kaldari
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > > The first would be to allow editors to set their email to only receive > from confirmed or even extended confirmed accounts. This would be invisible > to new editors, they'd just not see the *email

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls - Email filters?

2017-02-09 Thread WereSpielChequers
Christophe, Carol and Fae's notes have set me thinking as to what we could do with these funds, One of the areas that I understand has been a problem is email harassment, particularly of women and I believe particularly from throwaway accounts. I was wondering what people on this list would

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls

2017-02-09 Thread
Carol, sorry to see your email took two days to get here. These sorts of list delays can be a bit confusing when reading through a thread. (Hint to list admin.) I would be against setting up Wikimedia secret 'black ops' teams. It's actually been done before, and it's not good for the people

Re: [Gendergap] Craigslist founder donates $500K to curb Wikipedia trolls

2017-02-09 Thread
Thanks for the reply Christophe, I appreciate you posting to this list and being interested in following community views. Two points on this: * Can you tell us how much of the $500k will be spent developing software tools (which have been stated as having the objective of blocking more accounts)