[Foundation-l] identity disclosure and access to OTRS/Checkuser

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Wed Jun 25 19:45:31 UTC 2008


Joe writes:

> My reason for asking was from a comment left by Kelly Martin on the
> Wikipedia Review, where she said, "And Cary routinely makes  
> exceptions to
> the "must identify to the Foundation" policy, too," which seemed odd.
>
> It was such an outrageous comment that I wanted to ask what is  
> checked.
> Cary, thank you for answering. Is what Greg mentioned he did what  
> happens to
> all people with private access--do they have to provide a passport,  
> state
> ID, something like that?

I don't know what Kelly is referring to here. Cary doesn't make  
exceptions, routinely or otherwise, to the identification policy.  
Greg's experience is the norm, and it has been since I came on at the  
Foundation a year ago (one-year anniversary coming up in July!).


--Mike






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