On 9/27/05, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
I can see the place of anonymity on Wikinews, for example - reporting about something you don't want your name linked to as yet. But I really cannot see that a case has been made for Tor-level anonymity if the mission statement is "We're here to write an encyclopedia." Even for regular open proxy anonymity.
You have a point, but I like to think of people in mainland China being able to edit [[Falun Gong]] without feeling a cloud of worry. Even NPOV editing might be misconstrued by some authority somewhere, and people have kids, jobs, families, and might prefer to just stay away rather than take a risk.
Yeah. I'll see if I can gather actual data, not just an impression.
- d.