On 11/15/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
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.
The whole point of my 'real time challenge' was to avoid email. Email is store and forward: i.e. not real-time. :)
I was hoping for something along the lines of sticking them on an auto refreshing page (or some kinda ajax spinner) while a notice was directed to IRC.
I believe we have the human resources on at least some of our projects to do some amount of 'real time' work.. Where the real time work might be, things like:
# Account approval # Edit approval (i.e. detect penis penis penis and hold their edit until someone approves it, or perhaps a new sort of protection...) # Upload approval (users first upload can be inspected while they wait)
A successful system would integrate well with mediawiki (I consider this the hard part), be easy for our (impatient) users, and be able to degrade gracefully. (Track the backlog and if it grows too much, start directing people to the old non-real time methods rather than leaving people waiting for ever).