Lars Aronsson wrote:
tarquin wrote:
Just a quick word -- any news on the idea to put a "send this article to a friend" link on every page?
Sounds like a perfect spamming machine! Go in anonymously, create a new page with your spam message, then have Wikipedia mail that to your "friend". And the next friend, and the next, ...
If only the link (page title) is mailed, create the page [[save big on ink cartridges]], and mail that.
I think we can pretty easily protect against abuse by throttling the system in a variety of ways. That is, a single ip or user can only use the system a maximum of 10 times in one day, 3 times per hour, etc. Such throttles won't be perfect, but it would allow us to have this useful feature with a minimal possibility for abuse.
--Jimbo