[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

[Phil Nash]

Fred Bauder wrote:
>> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident
>> which made me re-think something on these lines.
>> I had a few years back, started creating an open visible
>> search-indexed index to ArbCom proceedings.
>> Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I
>> would necessarily recommend if you end up at ArbCom and then a
>> search on your name, get's a top Goog because of an index like mine.
>> 
>> People will common names could simply say it's someone else, but
>> people with rare names like Dror Kamir for example, might have some
>> intrepid employer say, "Oh Gee you were involved in that whole  
>> xxxx versus yyyy big controversy in Wikipedia, I don't think your
>> personality would be a good fit here...."
>> 
>> I can see it happening in this connected age, I have done it myself
>> when propositioning a new client, to see what's out there on them. 
>> I decided to make my index invisible temporarily while I mull this
>> over more. 
>> 
>> Will Johnson
> 
> I've noticed that old crap from years ago doesn't show on on your eBay
> feedback rating. I appreciate that. And, frankly, if someone is doing
> good work on Wikipedia now, who cares about some big blowup years ago?
> 
> Fred

An excellent point. Someone please let ArbCom know this.

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