On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Michael Noda wrote:
This sounds much more like what we might want. Is Amazon's system open, or will we have to craft our own? It seems like the sort of thing that would be useful in more online settings than WMF projects, so we could likely get coding support from the wider FLOSS community, if we publicised the project.
We can "roll our own" if needed be. If we do it with credit cards, it is a no brainer. But given that we use PayPal for our fundraising drives, the Foundation could approach PayPal and see if they are willing to lend a hand. PayPal has a "confirmed indenity" program as well.
If we really want to implement something like this, I can see a call for mandating Confirmed Identity for all positions of trust higher than Admin (adminship, whether or not it's still "not a big deal", is probably not a big enough deal to require Confirmed Identity from all 1000+ admins.) I think requiring Confirmed Identity from all future press contacts is a no-brainer, at this point.
That could be a good first step.
-- Jossi