Mark Clements wrote:
"Timwi" timwi@gmx.net wrote in message news:ejd0fd$pug$1@sea.gmane.org...
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Can we think of a good way to impliment "interactive intervention" in mediawiki which neither adds weird backend requirements (works with the nonpersistantness of php) or odd client requirements (no java or the like).
The idea is that we have hundreds of people in IRC.. many people RC patrolling. There are *many* sorts of activities which software can mark as suspect but which require judgement. Is there a reasonable way for us to get that judgement in real-time?
But that's easy... [long suggestion snipped]
This requires that the user supplies an e-mail address - not currently a requirement, so far as I know...
Do you have any better ideas?
Note that it is still perfectly possible to register without an e-mail address if you don't trigger the anti-spoof system, which I would hope would be the vast majority of cases. If someone is determined to have a certain username because it's their Internet handle (and not because they're trying to impersonate someone), they normally wouldn't mind supplying at least a temporary e-mail address.
Timwi