On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Chris Steipp <[email protected]> wrote: >> To satisfy Applebaum's request, there needs to be a mechanism whereby >> someone can edit even if *all of their communications with Wikipedia, >> including the initial contact* are coming over Tor or equivalent. >> Blinded, costly-to-create handles (minted by Wikipedia itself) are one >> possible way to achieve that; if there are concrete reasons why that >> will not work for Wikipedia, the people designing these schemes would >> like to know about them.
> This should be possible, according to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NOP, > which Nemo also posted. The user sends an email to the stewards (using tor > to access email service of their choice). Account is created, and user can > edit Wikimedia wikis. Or is there still a step that is missing? I tested the existing process by creating a new riseup.net email account via Tor, then requesting account creation and a global exemption via [email protected]. My account creation request was granted, but for exemption purposes, I was requested to go through the process for any specific wiki I want to edit. In fact, the account was created on Meta, but not exempted there. The reason I gave is as follows: "My reason for editing through Tor is that I would like to write about sensitive issues (e.g. government surveillance practices) and prefer not to be identified when doing so. I have some prior editing experience, but would rather not disclose further information about it to avoid any correlation of identities." This seems like a valid reason for a global exemption to me, so I'm not sure the current global policy is sufficient. Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
