Proposal:Less anonymity

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1. Achieve continued growth in readership
2. Focus on quality content
3. Increase Participation
4. Stabilize and improve the infrastructure
5. Encourage Innovation

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Summary

There must be less anonymity. Structures must be clear. Behind each edit, there is a mind. It should be more personal.

Proposal

Keep the possibility to make edits anonymously. These edits must be well declared as anonymous. There are other opportunities. One can be a non anonymous participant. These participants have a unique account with some personal information (Name, Forename, Nationality and Date of birth). Probably there might be an optional picture also. The identity of a non anonymous participant must be verified (for instance by a copy of its passport).

Motivation

In future there are several categories of participants. Allways there should be a category anonymity. But anonymity is not a reputed participant. Wisdom always arises from humans. For instance Wikipedia needs renowned authors. This is the only way to gain higher a reputation.

Key Questions

• How can Wikimedia gain more non anonymous participants, without losing its anonymous ones.
• How can Wikimedia motivate reputed personalities to participate? (Apart from by allowing them to remain anonymous)
• How can Wikimedia protect non anonymous editors from real life harassment?
• On a multinational site how does one introduce a verification system that works for anyone from any country, and doesn't have significant costs?

Potential Costs

There will be some costs for marketing.

A lot of good editors will be lost?

A load of back office costs will be created to deal with the processing of those anonymous editors who send in passports etc.

See also

• Proposal:Get rid of the global anonymity
• Proposal:Editor attribution and better citation handling for editors
• Proposal:Require all new user Accounts to start as anonymous

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