Comment 10 for bug 548021

Thanks for the feedback, Dirk!

It sounds like the scenario you're describing is, basically, where students want to share pages with people outside their school, but still not make the student's identity visible to the general Internet public.

I think we normally tell people to do this through secret URLs. The page author is still visible to whoever views the secret URL, but you have to know the secret URL for that. And pages viewed through a secret URL have a "no crawl" meta tag on top of them that prevents them from being indexed by search engines, so the secret URL itself remains the only way to gain access to it as an outsider (unless the student makes the page public).

Hm, I could see a scenario though like, you want to have students enter webpages into a public web authoring competition, while still keeping their names secret out of privacy concerns. You could workaround that by using group pages for a group with hidden membership, but that could get unwieldy and it wouldn't allow certain types of page content that can't be used in group pages, like blog entries (although actually blog entries always print your full name anyway... ). But in that case, I think, in order to reduce the possibility of fraudulently creating pages that look official, it would still make sense for it to say something like "by a site user" or "by site staff", and the page author should be visible to staff & admin users.