Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Friday 26 July 2002 04:52, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
There are also many good contributers who choose not to obtain a login for one reason or another. I'd rather let these people upload files. Besides, if we block non-logged in uploads, our abuser will just get a login.
Google isn't going to get a login, and our upload page is still #2 on Google, which is how the junk uploaders are finding it. So new abusers won't get logins - they won't find Wikipedia to begin with.
I've got the feeling that the fact that the Wikipedia Upload Images page shows up so high on Googles' ranking of image upload pages is a VERY BAD THING. It encourages people who have never heard of the wikipedia to think 'oh great, this is a free storage space for my pics of my cat/dog/canary/naked fiance :)
IMO, it shouldn't hurt people if we demand that they are logged in to upload images. At least that way they have to have taken the time to register and to maybe find out what the wikipedia is all about before they start uploading trash or copyrighted images wilynily.