Hi rupert, I think this requester feature has merit, as it provides a tool for communities to use for this purpose (COI) and others.
One possible implementation is the tag system already part of the Abuse Filter extension. Bug 18670 requests the tag system be more flexible, allowing false positives to be addessed, and would also allow self-tagging of edits. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18670 On Feb 22, 2014 10:26 PM, "rupert THURNER" <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: > 1. it should knows "groups" > 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile > 3. allow to select one of the "group"s joined to an edit when saving > 4. add a checkbox "COI" to an edit, meaning "potential conflict of > interest" > 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in history > views > 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in > history views > 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group > page, > or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page. > > reason: > currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is > quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most prominent > examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend > to create multiple accounts, and try to create "company accounts". the main > reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general): > * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive > for other users > * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee > > this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the german > community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this > system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be > applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may > continue to use "sue gardner (wmf)" accounts. > > what you think? > > best regards, > rupert > ------------------- > swissGLAMour, http://wikimedia.ch > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
