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

2009-12-11 Thread Pharos
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > Practically speaking, how would such a verification system work? Would it be > a specific OTRS queue (similar to the way we get proof that a photo's > copyright release is correct) or would it be an email to Cary at the WMF > (similar to the wa

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

2009-12-11 Thread Ray Saintonge
John M. Sinclair wrote: > I'm new to this discussion, so I may be inserting at the wrong place and > time, but I want to suggest that Wikipedia's counsel determine whether > the Digital Millennium Copyright Act implicitly requires individual > accounts in order to maintain the Foundation's protecti

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

2009-12-11 Thread Ray Saintonge
Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > The spirit of the one person per account policy was to prevent people from > disclaiming responsibility by claiming another person did it. That means little when we don't know the real names of the contributor. A pseudonym could be anyone with access to the family com