[Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

[John M. Sinclair]

I'm new to this discussion, so I may be inserting at the wrong place and
time, but I want to suggest that Wikipedia's counsel determine whether
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act implicitly requires individual
accounts in order to maintain the Foundation's protections under the
Act.  I don't know that it does, but I think it may, or may head in that
direction.

By the way, and by comparison, the federal courts require individual
attorney accounts for use of the online filing system (called Pacer), so
that an individual attorney must take responsibility for her or his
pleadings, and can't hide behind a firm account.  Of course, you can
always locate an individual attorney, and determine what firm they work
for.  


John Sinclair


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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey
Plourde
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

The spirit of the one person per account policy was to prevent people
from disclaiming responsibility by claiming another person did it. I
feel that allowing accounts for GLAMs would not violate the intent of
the policy, but suggest that the account be required to verify, maintain
a valid email and provide the Foundation with the identities of the
authorized users.   




________________________________
From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 4:16:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

I believe that a "verified" account system for GLAMs specifically
doing encyclopedic work (not for businesses, etc) would not be too
difficult to work out, and would be well worth any such effort.

Such systems, though nothing is 100%, have worked quite well for many
other websites.

Thanks,
Pharos

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When they are blocked like it happened with the Tropenmuseum, I will
ask the
> person who did this to reconsider... There has to be a reason for a
block
> and these organisations do what they do and they do it very well. The
notion
> that a block on sight is always good is .... not reasonable.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
>
>
> 2009/12/5 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hoi,
>> > I want to give you two different group / company accounts that I
think
>> are
>> > valuable..
>> >
>> > Tropenmuseum... If you do not know about it, read the Tropenmuseum
>> article
>> > on Commons
>> > Calcey - a company from Sri Lanka has adopted the localisation of
the
>> > Sinhala language. We are really grateful for their work.
>> >
>> > There are more great examples of companies, groups that make a
difference
>> > ... I would like to know more good examples..
>>
>> You say that now, but what happens when they are blocked.
>>
>> Or maybe they say something that sounds like a legal threat; are they
>> speaking for the company?
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
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