By bluerasberry on 2017-02-18
I started following Wikipedia community organization from 2012. At that time a trend was beginning to talk about addressing online harassment, especially harassment of women by men, but at the time each instance of the problem was imagined as an independent anomaly rather than a systemic problem. By that I mean that big online communities […]
Posted in legal, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged harassment
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-12
The process elected Trump to be President of the United States on 8 November. Lots of people are publishing reactions. I am from Texas, and because I know the culture there, I always felt that Trump was a respectable candidate from the perspective of my culture of birth. Most of my friends are in Seattle […]
Posted in election, New York City, Seattle | Tagged harassment, politics, president, violence
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-04
The Wikimedia community has a problem with harassment. The situation is that a significantly large number of people say that they would participate in Wikimedia community activities, except that they perceive the Wikimedia community to be hostile, unfair, and sometimes that it explicitly targets them for harassment. I recognize that there should be some response […]
Posted in rights, Wikipedia | Tagged culture, harassment
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-19
Dorothy and I have been talking about the long-term solution to online harassment. The ideal “solution” is whatever intervention prevents the maximum amount of online harassment, paired with a satisfying support system for targets of harassment. No one knows what this would be or how it would work, so Dorothy and I have been talking […]
Posted in service industry, Wikipedia | Tagged harassment, women's rights