David Gerard, 09/07/2011 12:46:
On 9 July 2011 11:02, BĂ©ria Limaberialima@gmail.com wrote:
The WMF is not responsible for private mails you send to anyone. The only people who "officialy" can receive a copy of any ID you may have are Philippehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philippe_%28WMF%29, Christinehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Christine_%28WMF%29or Meganhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mhernandez. If you send a copy of your ID to anyone else is not WMF problem.
I do think it is absolutely a problem when people on a WMF-hosted wiki are using an unofficial mechanism to demand copies of people's passports.
While Beria is technically right (probably), I agree with David.
Gerard Meijssen, 09/07/2011 10:06:
If you do not trust the person involved, you are crazy to send him a
copy of
your passport. This is a common sense. This policy as it obviously
works..
what is really your issue ?
Do we really need a theoretical approach that only can bring us less functionality ? I do not think so.
Gerard is right as well. This system makes sense and could work as an extension of those occasions when a trusted user says "oh, but I met both User:Whatever and User:AllegedSockpuppet in person at that wikimeetup, I grant you they really exist!", but probably there shouldn't be any "official" page, policy or guideline suggesting people to send private data like Huib described.
Nemo