Easier than that. They are asked to comment on the talk page, and the OTRS volunteer signs under it that they confirm they have been in contact with the writer of the post and their identity is confirmed as being X, to usual OTRS standards. Reference: OTRS ticket #123456789.
Prior to this as part of OTRS discussion they may well have helped the subject to understand what's needed for the purpose, or even reviewed the proposed wording of the post.
The key is that the only thing "private" and off wiki, is the OTRS confirmation that the wiki writer is verified to be the subject or their representative. Their actual post can readily be on the wiki in most cases and cited via diff (a wiki diff is a reliable source that user X said Y; OTRS then confirms user X was checked and is indeed the subject).
FT2
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:10 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
I think the only way to address this, is to make "presented by the subject" be "published by the subject". That is, as I've said, there has to be some sort of publicably accessible site, whether that's a blog or not, created by the subject, which later readers/editors can refer to, in order to verify the citation "Britney Spears says this is not true."
So we come back again to the same point. If the subject is so lazy they are not even willing to post some sort of rebuttal, then apparently they don't care enough to do something so simple.
On another note, if OTRS tickets are now "published" than I'd certainly like to know where and how to access them. Perhaps the subject, who doesn't have their own web site, would be willing to "release" a ticket for publication at... Wiki...uh... Problems dot com?
Will Johnson
**************Big savings on Dell XPS Laptops and Desktops! ( http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219799634x1201361008/aol?redir=http... eclick.net%2Fclk%3B214133440%3B36002254%3Bj) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l