That's true. Confirming they are the person they claim to be, is highly
important. The manner of that confirmation may well need to be private
though.
Examples: - they might need to provide personal information to do so that
has no place on the public wiki. It may relate to smear, stalking, or
harassment, where there is a positive disincentive to provide the
identifying info on wiki. Finally, they may decide to meetsomeone in person
who can verify them from a well known photo in the media - how would that be
evidenced on the wiki?
As well, a claim that verification is less important for copyright than
other things will be disputed by some.
But this is in a way a side-track into process. The basic idea, that we
verify they are who they say, and then cite from their words, seems
feasible. How exactly we verify and what standard or public detail is
provided, is "something to discuss", there will be standards we can agree
are ok, standards we agree arent, so that comes down to consensus or WMF
picking a standard we feel comfortable with.
FT2
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 4/23/2009 2:16:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com writes:
You take the OTRS volunteer's word that they
have indeed checked the person granting permission was in fact checked and
ensured they were the copyright holder as they claimed, or their
representative.
Same thing.>>
--------------------------
That's a much more minor issue than a person claiming to be Barack Obama
and then spouting a lot of nonsense just on the say-so of an OTRS
volunteer.
This would probably pass and be fine, until we have that enormously
embarrasing incident (which is bound to come) where the whole thing blow
egg in
our face.
The fewer eyes you have on an issue, the more likely it's going to
explode. Creating more black boxes that few to one person ever can view
and
analyze is not the answer to our "open society" experiment. The more open
we
are, the better it is for all concerned. The more closed we are, the more
likely we will have rising problematic issues.
Will
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