Gregory's Server@wikipedia @taavi this is cool and good work but it'd be really great if you could verify articles in the main namespace, so that @davew is verified as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
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 @timbray @wikipedia @taavi I agree, but it's not insuperable and it'd be a huge service @evan @timbray @wikipedia @taavi online identity verification for notable people via Wikipedia — that’d be a great service to provide which would be even more authoritative than Twitter’s Verified feature before it was ruined  @evan @timbray @wikipedia @taavi See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Authority_control @evan @timbray @wikipedia @taavi It should be in Wikidata. I see two possible approaches, there are probably more: either through a signed statement, or through checking the editor who contributed the fact. The latter is an unusual step, the former requires some work. I'm not sure what a decent way to do this would look like. |
@evan @wikipedia @taavi @davew
I think that would be hard. Trying to figure out the chain of trust, since anyone can edit any entry.