I think tracking IP numbers is the way to go. It's unambiguous,
although people going through large ISPs will probably have different
IPs assigned each session. I also like the idea of mapping the address
to a unique identifier.
I'd go so far as to give all logged-in Wikipedias the power to assign
aliases to the identifiers. When we see a particular identifier acting
like "fartboy," we can label it as such so it shows up that way in
RecentChanges.
Jimmy Wales wrote:
But I imagine that the sort of pinhead who goes around
writing
"fart" in all the articles is also the sort of pinhead who
wouldn't know how to turn off cookies.
Well, maybe Usemod should require cookies be turned on in order to
edit. But I still prefer tracking IP numbers.
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