[Foundation-l] New draft of privacy policy

Mon Jun 16 17:56:09 UTC 2008

Hoi,
We have always indicated to people who were interested in this that true
anonymity can not be found in anonymous editing. We have always indicated
that anonymity will be better preserved by making use of a user handle.

As you are continuing your game of silly buggers, it is a choice to use a
user or not. If people are not troubled by sub optimal anonymity, it is
their choice. At the same time they provide us with the handles to help
fight vandals. Changing this will not help us produce more or better content
for our projects. It makes our servers less responsive so I do not think
this should have much or any priority..
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
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