Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015/Candidates/Salvidrim!/Questions

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Question from Biblioworm

2. With the greatest respect, how can we trust you to be an arbitrator given that your account was recently compromised? Can we be sure that such a thing will never happen again? --Biblioworm 18:03, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

   How can you be sure your own account will never be compromised? How can you be sure any other arbitrator's account can never be compromised? How can you be sure the WMF's databases will never be compromised? Short answer: you can't -- this is the Internet age and everything has vulnerabilites. However, what you can do is take steps to try and minimize risk: I encourage everyone (editors, admins, functionaries) to make sure their Wikimedia passwork is unique (by changing it to something unique, not by changing every other place you think you remember using it like I did, which was a bad 2013 choice) and as secure as possible (XKCD provides some great ideas); and as many have pointed out, the WMF's login system's own security standards are far too lax and should be improved greatly, at least by enforcing a minimum password complexity, and potentially by enabling two-factor authentication. But 100% security is never going to be possible for anyone anywhere online. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 20:12, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Questions from Müdigkeit

1. How many hours per week do you plan to work for the Arbitration Comitee?--Müdigkeit (talk) 18:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

   That's hard to quantify, because the work I do for Wikipedia is cut up in several minutes-long blocks interspersed throughout the day -- remaining available every waking hour is how I often respond to pings very quickly. But I expect to spend at least one to two hours per day sitting down and focusing strictly on ArbWork, be it e-mails or cases or research.

1. Do you have a very secure email address that can handle several hundred mails per day(and several thousand mails in total if you have to take a small break)?--Müdigkeit (talk) 18:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

   Yes. I'm not sure what more details you're expecting in reply to this yes-or-no question, but I already receive hundreds of mails per day, I'd just have to phase out some projects in favor of ArbWork if I have to sit on the committee.

Questions from Gerda Arendt

Thank you for stepping forward!

2. Arbitration findings and the wishes of principal editors govern the use of infoboxes in articles. If you want to win my "neutral" please say how you would close the discussion at Joseph (opera)#Restore infobox?

4. An editor has been blocked for a month in the name of arbitration enforcement for having said that he creates half of his featured content with women. I find it kafkaesque and remember the opening of The Metamorphosis for an analogy. If you want to win my "support", please - on top of #1 - suggest improvements to get from arbitration enforcement ("not a fun place") to arbitration supervision, where such a thing would not happen. I offered some thoughts, wishing to see Floquenbeam's "no foul, play on" more often.

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:54, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Question from BethNaught

2. To what extent should people who write many GAs and FAs be exempt from WP:CIVIL?