Anthere wrote:
Section 2. USER ACCOUNTS OF MEMBERS. All applicants
for contributing
or volunteer active membership shall maintain a user account on one or
several Wikimedia projects (i.e. Wikipedia of any language, Wikibooks,
etc.), complete and sign the form of application provided by the
Foundation on its web site and submit the application the Secretary
along with payment of the years membership dues, if applicable,
through such web site or by mail. Such application shall include an
agreement by the applicant to abide by the Foundation's Code of
Ethics, submission standards and other policies as are time to time
adopted or modified by the Board of Trustees.
Here are the following cases as regards participants
* participant using his real name as a user name (example Tim Starling)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name
is displayed on his user page or is generally known per mailing list
(example Cimon)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name
is known only from a limited number of participants (I will avoid
putting an example here)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, and whose real name
is totally unknown of
* participant per ip
Which ones may be members ?
It seems that the first four are all allowed. The user registration is
what makes a person an active member. There is nothing preventing a
person from using his ip number as though it were a name. A few people
have already done that. This provison should really be integrated with
the single sign up concept to avoid any implication that being signed up
in more than one project means more than one vote. The biggest
difficulty that I have with this section is that it relies on a number
of ideas that have not yet been defined, such as the "Foundation's Code
of Ethics".
Ec