> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident > which made me re-think something on these lines. > I had a few years back, started creating an open visible search-indexed > index to ArbCom proceedings. > Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I would > necessarily recommend if you end up at ArbCom and then a search on your > name, get's a top Goog because of an index like mine. > > People will common names could simply say it's someone else, but people > with rare names like Dror Kamir for example, might have some intrepid > employer say, "Oh Gee you were involved in that whole xxxx versus yyyy > big controversy in Wikipedia, I don't think your personality would be a > good fit here...." > > I can see it happening in this connected age, I have done it myself when > propositioning a new client, to see what's out there on them. I decided > to make my index invisible temporarily while I mull this over more. > > Will Johnson
I've noticed that old crap from years ago doesn't show on on your eBay feedback rating. I appreciate that. And, frankly, if someone is doing good work on Wikipedia now, who cares about some big blowup years ago? Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l