I have mixed feelings about this -- what does everyone else think?
--mav
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Mayer" maveric149@yahoo.com To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] non-logged in users using upload utility
| I have mixed feelings about this -- what does everyone else think? |
I rather tend to be against anonymous users uploading 'stuff'. Signing up or logging in is not a very big hassle, plus it could be used as an incentive to persuade new users to do so.
WojPob
On Thursday 25 July 2002 04:55, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I have mixed feelings about this -- what does everyone else think?
Anyone who has no user name must not be allowed to upload an image. Anyone who has not created an article should not be allowed to upload, but as long as the English Wiki can't tell that the French Wiki is pointing to an image, there is no way to do this.
phma
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:55:30AM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I have mixed feelings about this -- what does everyone else think?
I have unmixed fellings about this: people who are not logged in should not be able to upload. People are spending very valuable time on removing illegitimate uploads so we should be very strict on this. I would even suggest the rule that unused pictures are fair game. Being able to check this is not a nice-to-have but a must-have. If we cannot integrate the different Wikipedias enough to do this easily, then we should decide that each gets its own upload space. Disk space is cheap, the time of contributers is certainly not.
-- Jan Hidders
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