Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread James Alexander
The idea of the IP being more private in the history/ public logs (for example a unique hash so that you know it's an IP but not where/what IP ) is one that I know has been discussed and is desired by a good number within the foundation including within legal. I'll try to look for the phabricator

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread Brian J Mingus
A very precise timestamp would seem to suffice for attribution. Anyone caring to prove they wrote something could take a video of them making the edit, thus confirming the timestamp is them. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually required so as

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread Brian J Mingus
I don't see a need to change the copyright. Just switch from the IP address to something that doesn't allow you to personally identify the user, but allows the user to claim ownership over the post if they want to, by recording some bit of information. I think a cryptographer could design a nice

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread Brian J Mingus
It has worked up to now, but I'm thinking that, especially given Wikimedia is suing the NSA, it is no longer justifiable. If the NSA can't track citizens, Wikimedia shouldn't be tracking them either. Seems simple :) On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Wed,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-28 Thread Kyanos
I don't believe a different license is needed. CC licenses can be used for anonymous works: The author is not given and does not have to be credited, but everything else (attribution of the work and share-alike) would stay the same. So a change in the terms of use to the effect of,