2008/4/28 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
I would add that our project, imho, should be open and
transparent. If
we
hide the internal workings from all but the cognoscenti, we are not
achieving
the greatest aim.
There are many ways to address DRV issues, without blocking all
non-mainspace searches.
Internal searching while helpful, should not be yet another way to shield
the world from the project. Quite the opposite imho. Forming a closed
society
is not going to be a productive way to show our supposed higher ethical
standards.
Will Johnson
It is one thing for such information to be searchable within Wikipedia,
and a
completely different thing to be searchable on commercial search
engines. Take a look at [[WP:ANI]] archives, and there are dozens of real
names of both editors and article subjects popping up, mainly with a
negative context. The code words we use on Wikipedia to mean one thing often
have far more negative interpretations outside of our little site - for
example, "stalking" and "abuse". Go and read a few arbcom cases, and
you'll
see masses of negative information and innuendo about people using their
real names, again both editors and article subjects. These things should
not be directly accessible by doing a simple websearch.
Risker