> May I suggest that candidates are allowed to answer Q3 on this mailing list,
> rather than on the WMUK wiki, should they so desire?
> I understand that candidates should disclose their usernames if they want to
> refer to their on-wiki experience. However, I don't think it's necessary to
> do so on a public wiki. I believe all candidates are fine with disclosing
> the link between their online and offline identities to members of the
> chapter, but some may not feel comfortable disclosing to the whole world.
It seems a pointless exercise to try to conceal one's identity, as
candidates are bound to disclose their user name if they answer any of
the questions put to them on wikimedia-uk (or otherwise interact on
the site), unless they don't sign in, in which case, how do we know
that the ip answering the questions really is the candidate? It is
also easy enough to work out the current and previous wikipedia user
names of the candidates from the information they supply, but I think
that it would be a courtesy to the wikimedia-uk community to tell us
who they are of their own volition. I'm not trying to out anybody,
but it seems to me that you cannot expect to be elected to the board
of wikimedia-uk and remain "anonymous" (in as much as a real name
means nothing to me, but I might well be familiar with a wp user
name).