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[mailto:wikimediameta-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Slim
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:25 PM
To: wikimediameta-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediameta-l] Wikimedia and cyberstalking

I'm writing a paper on cyberstalking and harassment, which I hope to
hand to the Foundation with a view to educating people about the
extent of the problem on the Wikimedia projects, and if possible
improving their responses to it.

I'd like to include some concrete examples of cyberstalking or offline
stalking that have happened to users as a result of their
participation in any of the Wikimedia projects, and particularly where
the target was picked on because they were an administrator.

If you've been a target of this yourself, or if you know of anyone who
has, I'd appreciate hearing from you at slimvirgin at gmail dot com.
All replies will be received in strictest confidence. Your name would
not have to be included in the final document, and if you're worried
about being exposed in any way, I can change all identifying details.
Nothing will be included about you without your express permission.

What I'm most interested in hearing about is how the cyberstalking or
harassment made you feel, and what happened when you tried to find
support. I'd like to hear about your fears; whether it made you
anxious; whether it affected your sleep or appetite, or your health in
any other way; and whether you considered ending your association with
the project you were involved in (or did end it). Even if your fears
felt completely irrational, I'd like to hear about them.


I'd also like to hear from women who feel they were subjected to
additional harassment because of their sex, or from gays and members
of ethnic minorities who feel they were picked on in whole or in part
because of that.

Many thanks,

Sarah

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Sheez, most of you probably think of me as a pinko leftism neo-feminist, but she's really got some nerve to ask about "women" and "gays" feeling specific harassment.

Where's Camila Paglia when you need her???
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Dear Ms. Virgin:

I am writing in response to your recent request for information regarding Stalking and Harassment™ incidents related to Wikipedia and other collaborative websites. While I would not wish to divulge my identity at this time, I believe that my 835,459,250 edits on the English Wikipedia alone speak for themselves, though of course my having made them with roughly 237,500 different user accounts makes it difficult to point to any one example of my having acted in supreme good faith.

My experience with Stalking and Harassment™ started, ironically enough, at last year's Wikimania conference, held in Boston. As the only female in attendance, I received more than my share of attention. Sensing danger, I struck up a conversation with a fairly pleasant young man named "Guido," and quickly left the conference in his Lamborghini. We spent the next several days in a rural Bed and Breakfast near Framingham, thus avoiding the rude stares of the other attendees and engaging in wild, passionate foot-fetishism on a near-constant basis. Between long sessions of toe-sucking and ankle-stroking, I learned that Guido and I had actually edited several of the same Wikipedia articles, and had even been on opposing sides of a minor revert-war on the now-deleted "List of New England Podiatrists Capable of Near-Total Discretion."

Needless to say, the details of our lengthy sexual liaison would probably not be appropriate for your monograph, and in any event, I've already posted an exhaustive minute-by-minute account of them on my Wikipedia user page. The important thing is that after nearly a week-long affair, I decided to end the relationship as the outcome of a bitter argument over the correct spelling of the word "consensus." Naturally, I asked Guido to never communicate with me ever again, and when he agreed by saying "Oh yeah, baby," I assumed that was the end of it. Alas, this proved not to be the case!

Within just two weeks of my return to the safety of rural Iowa, I discovered that nearly all of my edits on Wikipedia were being summarily reverted by a user known only as "Footpower654." After several RfCU's, and RfC, and even an RfAr, I still had no proof that this was the man I had known only as Guido (he had never told me his last name, claiming to have "lost it on a poker site"). However, I simply could not shake the suspicion that Guido and Footpower were, in fact, the same person! And, as it happens, my own use of multiple accounts (which, in my defense, only numbered about 178,400 at the time) was actually used against me during the ArbCom deliberations, despite the fact that I had clearly done this entirely for my own protection from Stalking and Harassment™.

As a result of Footpower/Guido's Stalking and Harassment™, I have been unable to eat shellfish, or indeed any form of seafood whatsoever, for almost six days. Moreover, three new facial blemishes have appeared on my skin which are clearly stress-related, unlike the other 437 blemishes I had previously, which were obtained in the normal course of obscene self-indulgence. And perhaps worst of all, I have been almost completely unable to enjoy any form of foot-related sexual activity since the incident.

In conclusion, I can only hope that my experience can help others cope with the devastating and life-changing effects of Stalking and Harassment™ in their lives. It is vital that all victims of Stalking and Harassment™ understand that their suffering is not their fault! I know that I have done nothing wrong, and nothing to deserve this kind of horrendous treatment at the hands of someone whose baseness and evil easily rivals that of Adolf Hitler and his various Nazi henchmen.

Thank you,

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the fieryangel   SlimVirgin's new presentation on "Cyberstalking"  
Jonny Cache   File this under "hmmmm".... Off of ...  
Herschelkrustofsky   "...particularly where the target was picked ...  
Daniel Brandt   Sounds to me like she believes Libyan agents are ...  
Jonny Cache   Sounds to me like she believes Libyan agents are...  
Joseph100   Sounds to me like she believes Libyan agents ar...  
Jonny Cache   [quote name='Daniel Brandt' post='48254' date='T...  
Kato   Where's Camila Paglia when you need her??? P...  
LamontStormstar   The irony of SlimVirgin complaining about cybersta...  
Herschelkrustofsky   The irony of SlimVirgin complaining about cyberst...  
Nathan   Yes. Isn't that ironic? Let's forget that...  
Jonny Cache   Yes. Isn't that ironic? Let's forget tha...  
guy   I'm sure we can all think of one or two contri...  
Rochelle   Well...it makes sense to me. Not to be "pro-w...  
GlassBeadGame   I can't believe this person has benefited from...  
Daniel Brandt   I assume it's all a trick. She plans to make ...  
alienus   I assume it's all a trick. She plans to make ...  
blissyu2   Link: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikim.....  
BobbyBombastic   Link: [url=http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/w...  
LamontStormstar   Well the whole research paper looks like she wants...  
Jonny Cache   Well the whole research paper looks like she want...  
Nathan   In slimiotics, the termofart [b][i]cyberstalk mea...  
blissyu2   [quote name='Jonny Cache' post='48296' date='Tue ...  
LamontStormstar   I liked the first version of that page. I don...  
Jonny Cache   In slimiotics, the termofart [i]cyberstalk means ...  
blissyu2   I just sent her an e-mail:  
Nathan   Yes, yes, my fault entirely. ;)  
Jonny Cache   Yes, yes, my fault entirely. ;) Please understa...  
blissyu2   Yes, well, just so you know Armed Blowfish wrote a...  
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LamontStormstar   Lots of people reading this, not many people repl...  
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Kato   My hunch is that Virginia Slim is launching an of...  
Herschelkrustofsky   Kelly Martin's blog post, almost demanding th...  
Jonny Cache   My hunch is that Virginia Slim is launching an of...  
blissyu2   I have always said that people who know about a su...  
blissyu2   Look at that. It made it to Wiki-research-l. 3 d...  
Ashibaka   It even got a reply from Sam Katz: [url=http://li...  
LamontStormstar   It even got a reply from Sam Katz: [url=http://l...  
Unrepentant Vandal   At least you aren't the 4chan kid Trey Burb...  
blissyu2   Ordinarily, I'd say that the goal was obvious ...  
Somey   Ordinarily, I'd say that the goal was obvious ...  
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Jonny Cache   She hasn't been editing Wikipedia, at least un...  
blissyu2   Oh.  
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