Hi Rogol, If you want to make an exception to pseudonymity and require real name disclosure for volunteers in such a post then a post on a talkpage or on this mailing list isn't enough to get a change. You or someone else would need to start a request for comment, presumably on meta, and you'd need enough to agree with you to get consensus.
It would be a big change from the principle of only requiring real names for paid staff, and for volunteers such as trustees who are in roles where it is legally required. Regards WSC > > Nataliia, > > Thanks for your prompt response. You have made your decision, and if you > have solicited applications for the Committee on the basis that the members > may remain pseudonymous, then I would not expect you to resile from that. > However for the next round perhaps you may wish to reconsider your policy > in the light of two points. > > Firstly, I am not suggesting that members of the Committee be required to > link their real names and Wikimedia handles. I am suggesting that they be > required to act under their real names. This allows a transparent exercise > of their powers to, for example, bar candidates from standing for > nomination to the Board, and make it clear to the community in general and > the potential candidates in particular, where they might have a conflict of > interest. If a potential member of the Election Committee canot take the > risk of associating their name with the Foundation for fear of reprisals, > then that is regrettable, but the same would be true if they wished to > stand for the Board. There must be a balance between transparency and > getting the best candidates and in this case I suggest that you have struck > the balance in the wrong place. > > Secondly, it has been claimed by Adrian that there is no need for this, as > he has been involved in government elections and has never been required to > disclose his name to the electors. I do not know which government he is > referring to, or how important a role he had in the election process, but > in the stable mature democracy where I live, the members of the electoral > commission are publicly named, the returning officers with responsibility > for conducting the elections are named (and are usually elected officials), > the count is conducted in a public forum, often televised, to which the > candidates have right of access, and the returning officers announce the > results in public, explicitly giving their names as part of the > announcement. I think that you can afford to be as transparent as that. > > "Rogol" > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Nataliia Tymkiv <ntym...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
