A 'liberalization' of IPBE can easily be enabled by allowing WMF
funded projects to add this group to any participants that request it,
or even all participants in some editathons given the benefits of
editing from shared wifi or through a proxy in some countries where
editing Wikipedia may have personal risks.
Editathons in national museums or universities are often hampered, and
new joiners have significant amounts of time wasted when they find out
their edits made in a library of a cafe get rejected and they can
forget editing that day, or told to wait for a month or indefinitely
for a global steward to consider their request. The risks are almost
zero that someone actively contributing to a funded content creation
project would be a vandal. Even if this ever happened, their account
would be sanctioned without it becoming a stewards problem. Keep in
mind that stopping editing from internet cafes or libraries
disproportionately harms poorer people and those editing from
countries without the best technical infrastructure who otherwise have
to try to edit from a mobile phone and may end up paying to edit
rather than using the public free access.
The current system works against the stated values of the community
and causes unnecessary harm. Let's just get on with making adding
newbies to IPBE a normal part of good faith editing, and stop global
stewards and mass IP blocks, being a serious and unnecessary barrier
to good faith editors.
Lane
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 10:04, Željko Blaće <zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
>
> My 2 cents in this telegraph short email
>
> #1 it is a common situation in Bosnia&Herzegovina and Croatia, likely in other
CEE countries of CEE where providers are 'cheap' with IP addresses. I know an
amazingly constructive and dedicated, but not proactive editor who failed to get unblocked
on EN, as he could not explain as a novice to EN admins in 2015 that he was not a sock
puppet . Loss is on our side.
>
> #2 This is a complex (and for outreach mission critical) problem that requires
real-time addressing and most likely a dedicated paid professionals (better 4 x 50% across
time zones) to take the burden off from voluntary stewards and admins, but also to inform
and educate those who could not follow what are common network issues across different
regions.
>
> Best, Z.
>
>
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