"Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com wrote On Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:24 AM
Florian Straub 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.
(I should clarify that I think it's a good idea, personally. But I would not feel comfortable implementing that policy without both community agreement and approval from upstairs for the ground rules changing dramatically.)
I've just talked to Elian. She said that if it was a consensus between the commons people it would be ok.
No disrespect to Elian, but since when does she set Wikimedia-wide policy singlehandedly?
She wasn't setting wikimedia-wide policies, she just mentioned her opinion.. But it's at least a small tendency. What about casting a vote for this, then we'll see what the rest of us thinks.
Best regards,
Flo