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On Friday 28 February 2003 09:03 am, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I can really understand concern for privacy and anonymity. I understand it a lot less in this context than in most, because what we're doing is as uncontroversial as stamp collecting in most jurisdictions. But if people want privacy and anonymity, hey, that's great with me, because I support those things generally.
But this idea "I won't log in because I don't want to be tracked" doesn't really make sense. From the viewpoint of privacy and anonymity, it's exactly backwards. It's a real pain in the neck for anyone, even me, to figure out an ip number for a logged in user, by the design of the software.
The only reason I can think of for someone like this to not want to log in is a reason that I don't think we can say is valid: the desire to make independent edits that are not watched by the community. Someone with a bad mission, either vandalism or pov, may want to pop in numerous times and make edits without anyone realizing it's the same person again.
How about introducing user accounts that do not require an email address, simply username & password. Then one could say that there is no reason for not making edits under a username, and anonymous editors could be prompted to make an account after a certain number of edits.
WDYT?
Sascha Noyes
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