[WikiEN-l] Brandt wishes to release personal details of all Wikipedia admins

Mon Dec 26 03:36:03 UTC 2005

On 12/25/05, Violet/Riga <violetriga at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is starting to go too far now.
>
> ~~~~ Violet/Riga

Yes.

What to do. Clearly we can't back down. We are already reciving far to
many lible threats. If we back down here every obsevive with a grudge
will try the same tactic.

There may be legal options but:

A) I doubt we can afford them
B) Many of them will have no effect (I doubt he has any UK assets for example)
C) They can only kick in once the information is out there

negoate with the guy.

Not posible. As outlined above we can't afford to back down and anyway
what he wants can't be offered by anyone below board level.

Increase admin security.

Not much we can do here since most people will have a pre wikipedia
trail. We could offer emails on the wikipedia but that does nothing
for past stuff.

We should probably be doing more to warn potential admins of the
downsides (we lose numbers but less burnout hopeful). Even at a lower
level than phoneing (email userpage vandalism) you are going to get
some theats.

Adminship may or may not be a big deal on wikipedia. To the outside
world it appears to be and with the growth of wikipedia this is a
problem.
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geni