On 11 July 2014 17:10, Gilles Dubuc gilles@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maybe it's a cookie-based approach you had in mind? Where we automatically create an account tied to the user agent. That would mitigate the issue of converting a pseudo-account that might have been shared between several people to a proper account, but not completely get rid of it.
I'd have thought the chain of events "go to a library computer, do some edits, decide to upgrade to a real account, do so, realise you've inadvertently swept up all the unsalubrious penis vandalism that has been made on that computer previously" would be unacceptably common.
--HM