I think tracking IP numbers is the way to go. It's unambiguous, although people going through large ISPs will probably have different IPs assigned each session. I also like the idea of mapping the address to a unique identifier.
I'd go so far as to give all logged-in Wikipedias the power to assign aliases to the identifiers. When we see a particular identifier acting like "fartboy," we can label it as such so it shows up that way in RecentChanges.
Jimmy Wales wrote:
But I imagine that the sort of pinhead who goes around writing "fart" in all the articles is also the sort of pinhead who wouldn't know how to turn off cookies.
Well, maybe Usemod should require cookies be turned on in order to edit. But I still prefer tracking IP numbers.
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