A Forbes writer parrots the "party line"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robpegorar ... 8321ce49e2
These provisions also cover behavior outside Wikimedia projects. For example, the doxing clause notes that “sharing other contributors’ private information, such as name, place of employment, physical or email address without their explicit consent” is out of line “either on the Wikimedia projects or elsewhere.”
There’s a complicating factor here in Wikimedia’s understandable lack of a real-names policy—enforcing one would endanger marginalized communities, and in particular those living under abusive governments. Wikipedia doesn’t even require an email address to create a contributor account.
Granted. But it also makes abuse easier--if you have an admin bit, or know an admin who will do abusive things for you. This is why Brandt's "Hive Mind" list from 2005-2006 was the
one little thing that would infuriate the power abusers to the max.
Consider J. Payne Smith, a complete ADHD nobody who works at a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta. He gets on Wikipedia, he sucks up to David "MastCell" Gorski (who still denies being MastCell despite ample evidence) for years.
He tries for adminship and fails, because he's a piece of shit. And now he's "outed" as a complete nobody.
Wikimedia Foundation communications lead Chantal De Soto noted this issue in an email: “enforcing any breaches of conduct that happen on other platforms is often very difficult—verifying connections between Wikimedia accounts, and, for example, a Twitter account, is often not straightforward.”
But it’s important that Wikimedia communities make that effort, considering all the evidence now available of how online radicalization can erupt in the physical world.
“All we have to do is look at January 6 to get a sense of what happens when that goes too far,” Howard said of the riots that took place at the U.S. Capitol.
You little shits.
January 6 happens somewhere on English Wikipedia several times every day. And it's usually covered up.
Done right, this may require hiring more dedicated trust-and-safety professionals.
Bullshit. This is an excuse to increase paid staffing. Are the new "Trust and Safety" (what a joke that name is!) employees going to toss out admins who abuse the UCC every day, or have committed massive abuses in the past? SlimVirgin and Jayjg are still administrators. Their continued presence, despite keeping a lower profile than they did prior to 2011-2012, is a MOCKERY of any "code of conduct".
Show us this "Code of Conduct" is not a joke. FIRE SLIMVIRGIN AND JAYJG NOW.