Casey Brown wrote:
Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project, make sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may get blocked. An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will, hopefully, make it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be identified.
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
I don't really mind if someone impersonates me. I'm going to mind quite a bit if I try to edit some small wiki and find that I'm blocked.
-- Tim Starling
On 5/14/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't really mind if someone impersonates me. I'm going to mind quite a bit if I try to edit some small wiki and find that I'm blocked.
The trouble for small wikis comes a known other wiki admin shocks the small wiki community with something emergent and some hours later it is revealed as impostering. I don't think it is too excessive to ask them to give information to prove their identity by linking their userpages.
You have to realize, though, that the sysop who blocks you has the duty to seek-out and contact the person who he believes is being impersonated to get confirmation that a block is requested and accepted or to find out if it is the user who it is supposed to be.
Casey Brown Cbrown1023
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Starling Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:50 AM To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
Casey Brown wrote:
Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project,
make
sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may get blocked. An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will, hopefully,
make
it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be identified.
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
found
at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
I don't really mind if someone impersonates me. I'm going to mind quite a bit if I try to edit some small wiki and find that I'm blocked.
-- Tim Starling
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