[WikiEN-l] Re: #wikipedia-en-admins

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

David Gerard wrote:
> Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 
> 
>>There are many many times when I need to quietly ask a group of trusted
>>editors to look at a problematic article -- for example, we get a
>>complaint from someone fairly obscure, on a topic I know nothing about,
>>and I look at the article and it is obvious crap.  The channel is
>>already proving useful in that regard.
> 
> 
> 
> There's an obvious security problem here, of course, in that you have
> no way of knowing that someone who claims to be a given admin and who
> then gets into the channel is actually that admin.
> 

My solution would be to only accept people with Wikipedia hostmasks. The
verification policy for that seems to work.

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