[WikiEN-l] Daily premier anonymity

[Jonathan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#Daily_premier__anonymity

I'm sure if this feature described here ever gets implemented that this 
section title won't be used for it. The idea sparked above with the 
suggestions to divert or prevent edit wars and the users' desire to stay 
anonymous.
* When you see any entry for a change made, the user's name or IP 
address is not shown in that entry. After you make an edit to the page 
that was changed, you then get to see who edited it in the entry, but 
that view is only available for a day from your last change.

This would encourage people to focus on quality of content rather than 
who made the content. The would also apply for administrators. Only 
stewards and bureaucrats can see who made the change at anytime.

For example, if you have not edited a page and you view its history, you 
would see something like:

* (cur) (last) 13:31, 4 March 2006 (good q!)
* (cur) (last) 13:12, 4 March 2006 (→1RR instead of 3RR for not logged 
users ?)
* (cur) (last) 13:12, 4 March 2006 (→1RR instead of 3RR for not logged 
users ?)
* (cur) (last) 13:08, 4 March 2006 (→1RR instead of 3RR for not logged 
users ?)
* (cur) (last) 13:07, 4 March 2006 (Hmm, everyone should do it anyway :))

The watchlist would look something like:

* (diff) (hist) . . Computer system; 06:31 . . (→See also)
* (diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia talk:Stable versions; 03:39 . . 
(→Semi-automation - recent stable version detector)
* (diff) (hist) . . m Computer programming; 02:04 . . (→Software 
development - bypass disambig)
* (diff) (hist) . . Computer security audit; 01:01 . .

Recent changes would look something like:

* (diff) (hist) . . Fiscal conservatism; 14:33 . . (→Notable Fiscal 
Conservatives)
* (diff) (hist) . . End of the Spear; 14:33 . . (replacing deprecated 
{{web reference}} with {{cite web}} using AWB)
* (User creation log); 14:33 . . Lettaylor (Talk) (New user (Talk | 
contribs | block))
* (diff) (hist) . . Talk:Dogon people; 14:33 . . (→Completely by Robert 
Temple? - Re)

As you see, there is no significance to who made the changes in the 
above views. This does not prevent somebody that reverts vandalism to 
track down who made the vandalism, as, once the vandalism is reverted 
the users name is then seen as we common know. Anything further 
vandalism by that user can be tracked down as usual.

Of course, if anybody signs their name, who made the entry is always 
revealed. If we want a feature to doublecheck if the tildes were used to 
sign (in case somebody forges a name), an extra flag on the change 
entries could be made to denote that.

Some worry that I don't spend enough time in article space, but I also 
am a developer of a wiki.

Can I get some feedback for this kind of policy that is really more 
technological?