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

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Charles > As a consequence of various
sustained dirty tricks campaigns, no doubt
> all intelligent people editing Wikipedia pseudonymously, and for whom
> revelation of their real-life identity would be a disaster, simply
> stopped doing that.

Rightly so, no? You're placing a lot of trust in WMF and the
developers of MediaWiki if you continue to edit "anonymously" and rely
on that anonymity to protect yourself f rom harm.

Steve