[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
This is becoming a nice game of silly buggers. I will bite anyway.

One reason why we should not grant access to Special:Checkuser to everyone
is because it would have all kinds of really nasty side effects. For one it
would make the life of stalkers that much easier. Giving stalkers the use of
this tool would effectively harm first the community and because of the
implications it would then harm the project.

Thanks,
      GerardM

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:31 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's also entirely unclear how this proposal would actually cause a
> > better encyclopedia, dictionary, media archive, quote database etc. to
> > be written. You know, the stuff we're supposed to be here for. Project
> > first, then community.
>
> By this logic we should grant access to Special:Checkuser to everyone.
> No?  Explain.
>
> :)
>
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