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Title
Combating harassment with user page protection
Theme (optional)
Community
Academic Peer Review option
No
Type of submission
Presentation
Author
Pax Ahimsa Gethen
E-mail address
web-wikipedia@funcrunch.org
Username
Funcrunch
Affiliation
None
Abstract

Harassment is an ongoing problem on Wikipedia, particularly for editors from marginalized groups, including women, people of color, and members of the LGBT+ community. Vandalism of user pages can be particularly damaging to such people. An idea was submitted to the Spring 2016 Inspire campaign to protect user pages by default from editing by anonymous and new editors. The proposal gained significant support, and was developed into a Request for Comment, which reached consensus for semi-protection. The user page protection was implemented by means of an edit filter on the English Wikipedia in November 2016.

This presentation will discuss the motivation for and thoughts behind this process from the viewpoint of the proposer, Funcrunch, a member of multiple marginalized groups. Comparisons will be drawn to harassment in other Internet communities. Arguments for and against user page protection will be analyzed, and examples of attempted vandalism that have been prevented by the edit filter will be examined.

Length of presentation
30 min.
Special requests
Need Internet connection and projector
Preferred room size
100
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