[Wikipedia-l] bylaws part II

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthere wrote:

> Section 2. USER ACCOUNTS OF MEMBERS. All applicants for contributing 
> or volunteer active membership shall maintain a user account on one or 
> several Wikimedia projects (i.e. Wikipedia of any language, Wikibooks, 
> etc.), complete and sign the form of application provided by the 
> Foundation on its web site and submit the application the Secretary 
> along with payment of the years membership dues, if applicable, 
> through such web site or by mail. Such application shall include an 
> agreement by the applicant to abide by the Foundation's Code of 
> Ethics, submission standards and other policies as are time to time 
> adopted or modified by the Board of Trustees.
>
>
> Here are the following cases as regards participants
>
> * participant using his real name as a user name (example Tim Starling)
> * participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name 
> is displayed on his user page or is generally known per mailing list 
> (example Cimon)
> * participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name 
> is known only from a limited number of participants (I will avoid 
> putting an example here)
> * participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, and whose real name 
> is totally unknown of
> * participant per ip
>
> Which ones may be members ?

It seems that the first four are all allowed.  The user registration is 
what makes a person an active member.  There is nothing preventing a 
person from using his ip number as though it were a name.  A few people 
have already done that.  This provison should really be integrated with 
the single sign up concept to avoid any implication that being signed up 
in more than one project means more than one vote.  The biggest 
difficulty that I have with this section is that it relies on a number 
of ideas that have not yet been defined, such as the "Foundation's Code 
of Ethics".

Ec