[Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

Thu Dec 10 04:15:14 UTC 2009

The spirit of the one person per account policy was to prevent people from disclaiming responsibility by claiming another person did it. I feel that allowing accounts for GLAMs would not violate the intent of the policy, but suggest that the account be required to verify, maintain a valid email and provide the Foundation with the identities of the authorized users.   

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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 4:16:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Assume Good Faith and Don't Bite Newbees

I believe that a "verified" account system for GLAMs specifically
doing encyclopedic work (not for businesses, etc) would not be too
difficult to work out, and would be well worth any such effort.

Such systems, though nothing is 100%, have worked quite well for many
other websites.

Thanks,
Pharos

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> When they are blocked like it happened with the Tropenmuseum, I will ask the
> person who did this to reconsider... There has to be a reason for a block
> and these organisations do what they do and they do it very well. The notion
> that a block on sight is always good is .... not reasonable.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
>
>
> 2009/12/5 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Gerard Meijssen
>> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hoi,
>> > I want to give you two different group / company accounts that I think
>> are
>> > valuable..
>> >
>> > Tropenmuseum... If you do not know about it, read the Tropenmuseum
>> article
>> > on Commons
>> > Calcey - a company from Sri Lanka has adopted the localisation of the
>> > Sinhala language. We are really grateful for their work.
>> >
>> > There are more great examples of companies, groups that make a difference
>> > ... I would like to know more good examples..
>>
>> You say that now, but what happens when they are blocked.
>>
>> Or maybe they say something that sounds like a legal threat; are they
>> speaking for the company?
>>
>> --
>> John Vandenberg
>>
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