On 6 April 2011 00:36, Andrew Turvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I remember back in 2008 when Wikimedia UK was relaunched there was a > debate about whether people involved in the chapter should have to > disclose their online identities. In the end most people did but the > conclusion was that it shouldn't be mandatory. > > There are quite a few people on Wikipedia who are quite protective of > their pseudonymity - particularly people who are admins involved in > contentous issues - and I think we should respect that. > > Having said that, I agree with Mike that a question on the wiki would > be a good place to ask that question.
Thanks for adding the question at <http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2011_election:_Candidate_questions> I understand why it is not compulsory for candidates to disclose their wiki-identity, but it is difficult to evaluate candidates who talk about their wiki-experience in their statements without providing their user name. It is an odd situation that using your real name confers anonymity in these elections, where on-wiki the user name provides the anonymity, but if candidates want to refer to their wikimedia experience then I think that they must reveal their user name(s) even if they have previously fought hard to preserve the anonymity of their user name. At any rate, I will not be voting for any candidate who does not reveal their wiki-identity, even if I know who they are. Andrew (BabelStone) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
