[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy

Mon Jun 16 17:27:50 UTC 2008

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> This is becoming a nice game of silly buggers. I will bite anyway.
>
> One reason why we should not grant access to Special:Checkuser to everyone
> is because it would have all kinds of really nasty side effects. For one it
> would make the life of stalkers that much easier. Giving stalkers the use of
> this tool would effectively harm first the community and because of the
> implications it would then harm the project.

Okay. So why do we give a checkuser equivalent (releasing the IPs of
unregistered users) to the entire world for something around half our
contributors?