I use my own name on WMF sites. I was warned against doing that not long after I started editing back in 2004. Ten years later and as a hothead editor having my real identity known does not seem to be a problem.
Most editors use an alias. I don't know why. What are they afraid of? Editing wikis, if you are doing it right, is a laudable task and editors should be proud of the fact that they are helping to share knowledge in an altruistic manner.
Rather than ensuring privacy of editors the WMF should DEMAND that editors make their identity known. I am sure that this may cure some of the many problems that we are seeing on WMF projects.
Having said all that there is of course a problem in some of the dodgy countries where speaking out gets you killed. It has happened with journalists, bloggers, activists etc. It could (has?) happen with WMF project editors.
Alan Liefting
On 09/04/15 00:06, Andrea Forte wrote:
The discussion here has been great. I've been keeping out of it since I have an active research project and I don't want to seed my own ideas, but to circle back to the original post... if anyone here would like to contribute their experiences with privacy on Wikipedia to our project, please consider doing an interview. This is not related to the lawsuit, btw, we started the project before that happened.
The consent form is here: http://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_elzNLEUeTjIphrv
Thanks, Andrea
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:00 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
There is an important difference here. The WMF does not publicly log the IP addresses of visitors to the site. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#your-use-of-wm-sites It does however publish the IP addresses of editors who are not logged in.
I could understand the elitist claim if the WMF were more privacy conscious of editors than readers. But it isn't, if anything the divide is a three way one, with unregistered editors as the ones who by default have least privacy
Regards
Jonathan
On 5 April 2015 at 21:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
I propose we run a study. We will survey random editors
I always find it curious that we had dozens or hundreds of threads on having IPs in history: this worry is very elitist, at most few millions people ever edited.
What about the hundreds millions users who never edited? What are *their* IPs being logged for? It would be rather trivial to do as the IA does:
http://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/reader-privacy-at-the-internet-archive/
I'll start worrying about the millions when we have solved privacy issues for the billions.
Nemo
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