Recently, aismallard brought to our attention the desire for anonymous publishing. This has been brought to staff's attention a few times, but the wikidot infrastructure does not allow for easy anonymous publishing.
To that end, there was discussion about who would handle this and how, and the Rewrite came up as a potential team to handle this responsibility.
The (almost entirely) original text proposed by ais is as follows1:
- Staff creates a special account exclusively for anonymous articles. It can't be used for voting or other wiki activities.
- Users may request a finished work be submitted anonymous. They will provide the page title, series title (for SCP articles), page content, and optionally, an author post.
- To limit coldposting / posting by those not familiar with submissions on the site, only site users who qualify for an author page may submit. Additionally, banned users will not be allowed to submit for anonymous publishing.
- The creator may request page edits, provided they make the request volume reasonable.
- The creator and the page will be stored in a staff-only location, and the information will be visible if needed for a strictly relevant purpose (e.g. a disciplinary case)
I am suggesting that the Rewrite team handle this responsibility. The anonymous posting account would be run by Rewrite, with the password available to admins upon request. A list of original creators and pages will be similarly maintained by the Rewrite team with the same admin caveat. At present, there are no plans to make this list available to staff at large.
We could use the existing The Community account.
It has also been suggested that we could limit the coldposting by requiring just a single (or two) successful pages - this would make the anonymous publishing more accessible, but run the risk of increased pages not succeeding.
Similarly, we will need to figure out an appropriate volume of edit requests. While I am happy with leaving this up to team discretion, an upper number guideline would be a good thing to have - perhaps no more than 4 edits per month?
Edit: Staff should have the ability to deny posting in the case of flagrant rules violation.
Edit 2: per further discussion, a "staff can refuse to publish at their own discretion" should be added - is this something we would all be in support of as a catch all for edge cases?
Are there any concerns or questions that are not addressed here?
This discussion is open to all staff members, including Junior Staff.
Edit: Changed "only site users with an author page may submit" to "only site users who qualify for an author page may submit"
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