[Foundation-l] Wikipedia-Freenode relations

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales jwales at wikia.com
Mon Aug 9 18:25:29 UTC 2004


Elisabeth Bauer wrote:
> But even for those I think it's not necessary: Jimmy, Angela and Anthere 
> are anyhow known as members of the board, so a cloak would have no 
> effect whatsoever.  Or differently put: a cloak is for speaking "ex 
> cathedra" and I doubt that this will happen very often.

Maybe I don't quite understand the issue, but one thing I like about
the cloak is that I don't have to worry about people pretending to be
me.  This seems like a legitimate danger since I'm pretty easy to
impersonate, ha ha, because I always say the same things.

--Jimbo



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