On 8/19/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 0, Adrian aldebaer@googlemail.com scribbled:
Are there any plans to adopt the forced preview for IPs, like on the German WP? It seems like a good method to curb IP enthusiasm just a little bit.
Also, in my opinion, the undo function should be disabled for IPs, it's not needed to edit and may seduce new IP editors into avoidable edit
wars.
Adrian
I don't think there are, and I hope there aren't. Sometimes I find myself going through interwikis for a particular article and moving all the images over to Commons & sorting/rationalizing/removing-duplicates, and updating the links. In those situations I absolutely hate editing (as an anon, of course, since I can't be troubled to create accounts on the Urdu WP, the Uighur WP, the French WP...) and then finding myself wondering what went wrong with my edit? Why didn't it save? I *thought* I hit the right button, that's where the save button usually is.
Eventually I realize I'd found one of the WPs which had turned forced preview on. Cursing their choice, I hunt around and eventually commit my edit.
Please don't argue for En to become one of those.
This sounds to me like a compelling argument for single-user login across projects, rather than turning on preview for anonymous editing.
Incidentally, surely this could be tied in with the proposal for a special class of anons that's being discussed elsewhere on the list?
Johnleemk