I kind of agree with Charles in the sense that some institution computers dont allow cookies to cache - meaning all edits must be IP edits (dont use term 'anon').
It would be interesting to hear from the regular IP community what their concerns are - anonymity, caching, too busy to log in, dont care to have a web ident, dont want to get personal, etc?
SV
--- charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Neil Harris wrote
How about the much simpler approach of restricting
page creation to
logged-in users?
No, no and three times no!
Do we want people to try test edits of [[World War II]] rather than creating [[pancakesMMM!!!]] as a sandbox/test edit. No we don't.
I find that many anons are graduate students very much able to help with developing WP. We need these guys! We need them to understand that 'libre et gratuit', as the French helpfully put it, is exactly that. We ask no more than that you come and edit; we put no barriers in place; we are geniunely open to business to IP numbers. We want people's toes in the water and don't put up signs saying 'Private Beach'.
Charles
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