On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What is the official policy and requirements for OTRS and Checkuser volunteers, who both have access to private information, to disclose themselves to the WMF? What are they required to reveal to the Foundation, and how is that information vetted and verified? How does this line up with the WMF's board policy on private material?
I emailed a copy of my drivers license (or was it passport? I forget). .. .. and I've also met almost all of the foundation staff and board so if there was anyone qualified for waving based on "oh we know him" I think I'd be fairly high on the list, so I'm not personally aware of it being waved.
There was a comment from someone who helped draft original OTRS policy, and who was an administrator and Arbitration Committee member on the English Wikipedia, that some individuals for some reason do not have to disclose themselves, which sounded odd, and another person,
My belief is that the requirements are reduced for people that only have access to the 'boring' OTRS queues, the ones where private information is only disclosed infrequently and incidentally (like anything else on Wikipedia). I'm sure Cary will reply with more details.
a current Board candidate, stated that his entire disclosure to the WMF consisted of a Gmail stating his name and age. That seems... rather concerning on the former, and rather thin on the latter.
I would think that only the *winner* really needs to be identified in any robust way. Prior to being selected as a winner the only real need to ask for ID is to weed out anyone unwilling to provide it.