2008/6/25 Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org:
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
Eh back when OTRS was first activated I think ID was required for everyone so some old timers are likely to be confused about how things are run now. Either way it is better than what went before.