[Foundation-l] Fwd: Right to be Forgotten

[John Vandenberg]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
>>> <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
>>>>
>>>>> Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why should they care?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is where it all started,
>>>
>>> http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToLeave
>>
>> The Right to Leave is very different from the Right to Vanish. Nobody
>> can stop you leaving, so the Right to Leave is just a statement of
>> fact. The Right to Vanish is something that we (and possibly this new
>> law) explicitly grant to people.
>
> How can we remove ten thousand comments and signatures using the users
> real name or well-known handle?

If we are using the wonderful Liquid Threads extension, all signatures
change when we rename the account.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads

It is implemented on a few WMF projects, but it is being rewritten at
the moment.

-- 
John Vandenberg