On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Joe writes:
My reason for asking was from a comment left by Kelly Martin on the Wikipedia Review, where she said, "And Cary routinely makes exceptions to the "must identify to the Foundation" policy, too," which seemed odd.
It was such an outrageous comment that I wanted to ask what is checked. Cary, thank you for answering. Is what Greg mentioned he did what happens to all people with private access--do they have to provide a passport, state ID, something like that?
I don't know what Kelly is referring to here. Cary doesn't make exceptions, routinely or otherwise, to the identification policy. Greg's experience is the norm, and it has been since I came on at the Foundation a year ago (one-year anniversary coming up in July!).
--Mike
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And, for more than a year since Mike joined WMF, real identification was demanded of candidates. I take minor exception to Greg's observation earlier that only the winner would "really" need to supply ID - the whole point of this development historically was to discourage an otherwise unqualified jester from going the entire way through the election process, getting votes, but not having the legal capacity to act as a board member. As Danny used to joke, the rule is "we can't have anyone on the board who needs a permission slip from his mommy."
In meatspace, who you actually are actually matters.
Brad