<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I believe this is a great topic to discuss, partly because it brings the good society critical concepts of how to balance anonymity, privacy, control, free and political political speech to our own house, to where we feel there results. Rather than only debating the concepts in the abstract, we have to struggle with them where they effect us.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The analogy I raise is to a free speech scheme (designated no protest areas, and free speech areas) that has received some widespread support. Which would probably be applied as locking the main pages from anonymous editing, while allowing some spam and trolling and hopefully criticisms of what is happening at NB by people who care, but want to remain anonymous.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Naomi Most <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pnaomi@gmail.com" target="_blank">pnaomi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">On Friday, after learning that our Events listing had been vandalized<br>
enough to prevent the CNC mill event from "sticking" long enough for<br>
anyone to read it, I took the unilateral action of protecting the<br>
front page, Vision page, and Category:Events page with editing<br>
restricted to "new and unregistered users" only.<br>
<br>
Annoyance was registered from 2 IP addresses by posting on the Talk<br>
pages for those spots.<br>
<br>
Admittedly, I have a lot to learn about wiki culture. But I am<br>
struggling to understand -- in this era of Tor nodes being used to<br>
shield anonymous edits from punishment /anyway/ -- how it's useful or<br>
necessary to allow "anonymous" -- meaning, IP-identified -- editing to<br>
our pages.<br>
<br>
I'm worried that, in our haste to ban IPs, what we're really doing is<br>
creating a blacklist against Tor in general.<br>
<br>
I'm looking for some arguments and perspectives on why anonymous<br>
editing of our most important, public-facing pages should or shouldn't<br>
be allowed.<br>
<br>
I'm probably going to turn off this protection myself tomorrow, after<br>
Maker Faire Madness brings our most active admins back to attention.<br>
<br>
For education on this topic, I am reading this wikipedia page and<br>
considering whether <a href="http://noisebridge.net" target="_blank">noisebridge.net</a> fits the same constraints as<br>
wikipedia.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaiwen1/Vote_to_prohibit_anonymous_edits" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaiwen1/Vote_to_prohibit_anonymous_edits</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Naomi<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Let's stay in touch. Greg
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