Robin Shannon wrote:
I see no problem with it, im just wondering if maybe a comprimise would be to have it the default for annon edits (or would that be less elegent coding?) since im guessing that most spam is from annons (as users would be banned for it).
Most spam on Wikipedia seems to be from anonymous users. But spam on blogs and wikis that require logins before editing generally comes from throwaway accounts. Believe me, they can create them faster than you can block them. See for example this revision, contributed by the user DinMo to a wiki which requires logins:
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/ScddBox?version=1
Judging by the URLs, that spammer was blocked from Wikipedia on December 29. As soon as they realise what we're doing (and I have no doubt they will), they'll log in to our wikis just like they log in to everything else.
-- Tim Starling