--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
On the other hand, keeping anonymous edits might be good as well, as vandals then wouldn't log in, and *potential* (!) vandalism could be rather easily on Recent Changes by the very fact that it's an anonymous edit (most "real" authors are probably logged in).
That seems akin to racial profiling. I knew a great previously-anon user who now goes by Crusadeonilliteracy. He didn't want to take credit for his contrabutions, so he didn't make a login. But a login was required to upload pictures and move pages, so he made a username. If he couldn't make anon edits, he probably wouldn't use wikipedia. I, and probably the majority of the people on this list, also started out anon for the first few contrabutions. Anonimity is an essential part of a wiki. UseMod (which most wikis run on for simplicity and speed, no offence Magnus) doesn't even have logins. -LDan
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