On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:40:00 +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
We should set permanent cookies on every pageview except saves, require cookies for saving pages, assign random account names (anon2349bx29s) to anonymous editors, and use cookies to block most users.
This would defeat all caching, we use 'Vary: Accept-Encoding, Cookie'.
Anon and non-anon vandalism wouldn't be such a problem if the 'stable', publicly visible version wasn't affected by this immediately. Some ideas in that direction are collected at http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-vandalism_ideas.