On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed with John and Gnangarra. > > Re: John's point about Brianna's suggestion - I would have been under the > impression that the right to edit would under that model be granted to > specific known individuals, so the committee would already be aware of the > person involved, perceive a tangible benefit in having them editing (i.e. > "we need help with something, this person has the skills/knowhow/whatever to > help us in that way to the extent we should overlook their non-membership > status to give them editing rights"), and be able to decide on that basis. > Yes, and I'm not comfortable with the idea of veting people myself. Committee members have discussed this sort of thing previously in regard to membership applications and it's something I think we have to be very, very careful about and remember that Wikimedia Australia is not Wikipedia and there are plenty of reasons perfectly legitimate people may want to get involved with and support the Chapter but who aren't WMF editors, though I do recognise the reality that there are people out there who get entertain value from trolling us, but I would prefer to deal with them - if we ever did open up website editing - by quickly blocking/banning people who cause problems. John included the qualification of "where applicable" but how do you determine when it's applicable? How do you know if someone who says they have no on-wiki identity *really has no on-wiki identity* and has simply never edited a WMF project or that they're career trolls who don't want to admit that their "on-wiki identities" involve a dozen banned accounts. I also don't like the idea of applying tighter strictures to non-members than members (and lets face it, $40 isn't a prohitive amount for someone intent on trolling us). I just don't see how veting can be done fairly and without harming genuine people who just want to support us.
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