[WikiEN-l] Re: Michael's threats

[Daniel Mayer]

Anthere wrote:
>Hum...this is the second time that a wikipedian
>appears to have doubts on my morality in 24 hours.
>I *think* it would be nice between wikipedians to
>avoid this type of statement and recognise we are
>different, and might actually not share the same
>morality. Moral rules are personal issues. 

Agreed - This was based on the presumption that you
disagreed with the handing over of the death threat
person's IP and was made before I realized Brion had
already given-out this information. As I stated in my
private email to you I realized after making the post
that this wasn't your intention - you were concerned
with the general policy of allowing sysops the ability
to see logged-in user's IP numbers. 

BTW, when I say "policy" while posting to WikiEN-l I
usually mean policy for en.wiki. There does seem to be
consensus for allowing sysops to see the IP numbers of
logged-in users on en.wiki but there obviously is no
consensus for this to be a global policy. This feature
could be turned-off by default and decided on a
language-by-language basis as far as I'm concerned. On
en.wiki at least, there are enough sysops and enough
people watching the sysops to ensure proper checks and
balances. Jimbo is also fluent in English so it is
easy for him to investigate alleged abuses. 

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma
The usual at [[March 29]]

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