Steven Walling wrote:
There are about a million IP edits a month on English Wikipedia alone, last time we checked.[1] If we increased anonymous bot spam by even only 1/10th of the total number of edits before we managed to put IP blocks in place, that's still 100k edits worth of spam.
That's where AGF kicks in. The "anyone can edit" is sacred; I believe we should not touch it at the cost of deferring legitimate contributors. It's not that hard to put up a prominent "Please help us, we're drowning!" note on the wiki and increase the amount of people who review the edits tenfold.