[Commons-l] Requests for permission

[Andrew Gray]

On 24/04/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've just gotten another email request for permission to use one of my
> photos. Of course they have permission, but I'm struck by how much
> trouble people always seem to go to find an address to send to. I'm
> thinking that we should suggest to commoners that they post direct
> contact info if they're comfortable with that, at least on user page if
> not on every image - I think there's only been one time that a reuser
> found mediawiki's secret email-to-user option and contacted me that way.

Email-to-user was great... before we locked it down and required both
parties to have confirmed accounts. I wonder - could we patch it so
that someone can set, in their preferences, the option to allow use of
special:emailuser by non-registered users?

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk