[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Accountability: bringing back a proposal I made nearly 2 years ago

[David Gerard]

On 09/03/07, Kat Walsh <kat at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Positions of personal-level trust are different -- checkusers, press
> contacts, and similar. And for those, I don't care about credentials,
> unless the credentials are in some way related to what they are doing
> -- just identity, that they are who they say they are. Already we ask
> that stewards prove they are over age 18; checkusers *should* be the
> same. I'm sure we will be more stringent about checking on the
> identities of press contacts in the future. It is reluctantly that I
> can accept restricting users from being able to fill these positions
> without proving identity, because I want to trust that people will not
> misrepresent themselves, but I recognize that they do not always do
> so.


Something to note: the functions you speak of are really Foundation
positions, not encyclopedia project positions. That's why the
Foundation has to keep tabs on them.


- d.