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.