On 11/5/05, Amgine amgine@saewyc.net wrote:
beneficial to the Wikimedia projects. This is an opt-in situation for you, and Wikimedia has no ability to separate you from the spammers and vandals who likewise prevent us from knowing their IP.
But we do. Allowing anonymous users to create respected user accounts is an important service that we should offer the community of editors. Especially if we want to encourage editors from parts of the world where even editing such a body of work is prohibited.
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