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

Sun Jun 29 14:21:22 UTC 2008

2008/6/25 Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org>:
>
> 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

Eh back when OTRS was first activated I think ID was required for
everyone so some old timers are likely to be confused about how things
are run now. Either way it is better than what went before.

-- 
geni