I have been wondering if it were not possible that someone provides the
link between his real identity and his pseudonyme, and as such is
allowed to be granted membership and voting rights under the real name.
This with keeping private the information.
After all, we accept donations, and agree to keep the names of the
donators private. Why could not we just do that as well for the members ?
Then, as soon as the link between the two names is validated, the member
is accepted for commenting and voting under his real name, without
making his wikipeida identity known publicly.
Possible ?
Optim a écrit:
if I understand well, it is impossible to become
a member of the Foundation without exposing a
real identity (full name etc), so anonymous
members are not allowed.
If I continue to understand well, a person who
cannot reveal a real identity can continue having
a user account on Wikipedia or contribute as
anonymous IP address.
Is my understanding right?
--Optim
--- Anthere <anthere8(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Section 2. USER ACCOUNTS OF MEMBERS. All
applicants for contributing or
volunteer active membership shall maintain a
user account on one or
several Wikimedia projects (i.e. Wikipedia of
any language, Wikibooks,
etc.), complete and sign the form of
application provided by the
Foundation on it’s web site and submit the
application the Secretary
along with payment of the year’s membership
dues, if applicable, through
such web site or by mail. Such application
shall include an agreement by
the applicant to abide by the Foundation's Code
of Ethics, submission
standards and other policies as are time to
time adopted or modified by
the Board of Trustees.
Here are the following cases as regards
participants
* participant using his real name as a user
name (example Tim Starling)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user
name, but whose real name is
displayed on his user page or is generally
known per mailing list
(example Cimon)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user
name, but whose real name is
known only from a limited number of
participants (I will avoid putting
an example here)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user
name, and whose real name is
totally unknown of
* participant per ip
Which ones may be members ?
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