The Jackal Rants

Right, well, this’ll be brief, but succinct. I doubt any volunteer working with the Wikimedia Foundation can have failed to notice the recent debacle over the new Board resolution mandating confirmation of identity and imposing a minimum age on volunteers working with “sensitive data”, which is poorly defined as “developers with access to sensitive data”, as well as CheckUsers (which makes sense) and OTRS volunteers, which makes less sense.

Daniel Kinzler put together a +1 insightful post for his blog, which summarises a lot of the major concerns I’ve seen over this proposal, including the lack of research beforehand, the lack of thinking regarding an effective implementation and the lack of communication to the people it affects.

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