[WikiEN-l] Ramifications to wikipedians of unmasking of police blogger?

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:58:08 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:

> Is anonymity important to many Wikipedia contributors? I had sort of
> assumed we provided anonymity as a sort of courtesy, not as any real
> right.

You were apparently absent during the BADSITES Wars of a couple of 
years ago, where one of the principle arguments for draconian stands 
against linking to so-called "attack sites", and for McCarthyite 
witchhunts against anybody seen as in any way connected with them, 
was that those sites were engaged in "outing" Wikipedians.


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