[Commons-l] Vision for Commons, 2007

[Florian Straub]

Stan <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote on Friday, February 09, 2007 11:20 PM:

> Florian Straub wrote:
>> "Stan Shebs" <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote on Friday, February 09, 2007
>> 10:35 PM:
>>> Florian Straub wrote:
>>>
>>>> My additional wish would be a way to contact one time contributers. 
>>>> There
>>>> are several ways to achieve this:
>>>> * Creating a field "home wiki" on the resistration form.
>>>> * Making email adresses mandatory & auto activate email notification
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So why do you think people won't create throwaway email addresses? They
>>> do that all the time now.
>>>
>>
>> Then we might also have to activate email confirmation.
>>
> People throw it away after receiving the confirmation, or when they're
> done with uploads.

No uploads without confirmation?


> Exactly what problem are you proposing to solve, anyway? If it's
> identity, then you're talking government-issued IDs, and I'm pretty the
> Foundation doesn't want to be in the business of collecting and securing
> all that personal information. If it's verifiability, then if I stole
> the picture the first time, I'll just keep up the pretense in subsequent
> email inquiries.

The problem I wanted to solve was the amount of people that would 
change/correct the image description / license, if we could reach them when 
they're not active in Commons.

Regards,

Flo