On 09/03/07, Kat Walsh kat@wikimedia.org wrote:
Positions of personal-level trust are different -- checkusers, press contacts, and similar. And for those, I don't care about credentials, unless the credentials are in some way related to what they are doing -- just identity, that they are who they say they are. Already we ask that stewards prove they are over age 18; checkusers *should* be the same. I'm sure we will be more stringent about checking on the identities of press contacts in the future. It is reluctantly that I can accept restricting users from being able to fill these positions without proving identity, because I want to trust that people will not misrepresent themselves, but I recognize that they do not always do so.
Something to note: the functions you speak of are really Foundation positions, not encyclopedia project positions. That's why the Foundation has to keep tabs on them.
- d.