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Use of a [[jabber.org]] ID has been suggested as an '''interwiki identity standard''' for | Use of a [[jabber.org]] ID has been suggested as an '''interwiki identity standard''' or '''single login''' or '''sign-on''' for many [[large public wiki]]s, in particular for all [[GFDL corpus access provider]]s. | ||
=== making attribution claims easier === | |||
Basically, the advantage is that [[attribution]] as required by [[GFDL]] and [[CC-by]] licenses becomes more or less automatic assuming the identity or sign-on is not [[cracked]]: people '''login''' once under a persistent [[pseudonym]] or perhaps their [[body name]] if they voluntarily disclose that, and thereafter, whatever is done from that [[login]] is properly attributed. | |||
This has many advantages, few drawbacks, and tends to help overcome the problems with strict [[IP number]] based accountability and with [[identity dispute]]s arising from the many different [[user name space]]s. It should also solve the [[GFDL corpus]] problems with the [[attribution]] required by the [[GFDL]] itself and reduce the impact of [[Wikimedia corruption]] on the [[GFDL corpus]]. | |||
By reducing assumptions about [[alleged and collective identity]], i.e. the allegation or assumption that User:X on Wiki:X "is also" User:X on Wiki Y, it may reduce [[identity dispute]]s. For those who used such a voluntary common ID or '''single sign-on''' it would be slightly more difficult to impersonate them. | |||
Ensuring all [[wiki user page]]s alleged to, or claimed to, belong to "the same person", and keeping these claims or allegations correctly attributed, is further simplified by reliance on a [[standard wiki URI]] for all such pages. ''Typically the [[Language:User:]] space is reserved for this on [[MediaWiki-based service]]s.'' | Ensuring all [[wiki user page]]s alleged to, or claimed to, belong to "the same person", and keeping these claims or allegations correctly attributed, is further simplified by reliance on a [[standard wiki URI]] for all such pages. ''Typically the [[Language:User:]] space is reserved for this on [[MediaWiki-based service]]s.'' | ||
=== factions still required === | |||
However, for clashing allegations of identity, with deliberate deception, only a [[faction]] system can possibly work in the long run. ''See [http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Wikinfo:faction en:Wikinfo:faction] for a proposal for this that would suit pan-GFDL editing, and[http://ouranswer.org/wiki.phtml?title=faction en: OurAnswer:faction] for an experiment in this method.'' | |||
''(insert example of the variety and complexity of problems arising from lack of such a standard, exploitation possibilities caused by identity confusion)'' | |||
Such a standard would not resolve other collective and alleged identity questions, where one is dealing not with self-alleged identity but with other-alleged identity. There is a fairly complex interaction between the question of factions and that of [[power structure]]s, including the role of [[sysop]]s and other such empowered users, and those they specifically disempower, called "[[trolls]]" and "[[vandals]]". Much of the complexity is re: trolling: | Such a standard would not resolve other collective and alleged identity questions, where one is dealing not with self-alleged identity but with other-alleged identity. There is a fairly complex interaction between the question of factions and that of [[power structure]]s, including the role of [[sysop]]s and other such empowered users, and those they specifically disempower, called "[[trolls]]" and "[[vandals]]". Much of the complexity is re: trolling: | ||