On 11/13/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
On 12/11/06, Florian Straub flominator@gmx.net wrote:
Awesome! Is there any chance to activate it directly for new registrations on commons or do they people have to confirm their adresses first?
Thanks, Brion. Specifically, could we require that new registered users must have a confirmed email address before uploading? With talk page email notifications as default setting.
That's a complete about-face from Wikimedia's traditional policy of allowing anonymous contributions, so before I set that up I'd need to know this is acceptable to Wikimedia.
Anonymous text with the release "I wrote this" is one thing. Anonymous images are another.
Umm, why?
I never understood putting unnecessary barriers into place before people are allowed to voluntarily contribute something. It's one of the reasons I haven't yet participated in the Citizendium project.
By the way, I've uploaded maybe around 100 images to commons, some of which are used on multiple projects, and just about all of which are anonymous. Better get to work deleting them all. Here's a link: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/Gallery.php?wikifam=commons.wiki...
Anthony