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(a)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(a)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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