Fabrice, is this still the case? Are there ways around this?
- I suppose session cookies for anons just to possibly thank them is a
bit excessive.
It sure sounds excessive. Setting a session cookie after an edit has been made by an anon might[1] be quite cheap in reality, or at least cheap enough to justify the cost. Privacy wise it also seems ok, but I might be overlooking some things on that regard as well.
--Martijn
Don't we already do this upon an anon visiting an edit page? Otherwise standard talk page messages wouldn't really work for anons, as the user wouldn't get past varnish.
--bawolff