[WikiEN-l] Forced preview for IPs

[John Lee]

On 8/19/07, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On  0, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> scribbled:
> > Are there any plans to adopt the forced preview for IPs, like on the
> > German WP? It seems like a good method to curb IP enthusiasm just a
> > little bit.
> >
> > Also, in my opinion, the undo function should be disabled for IPs, it's
> > not needed to edit and may seduce new IP editors into avoidable edit
> wars.
> >
> > Adrian
>
> I don't think there are, and I hope there aren't. Sometimes I find myself
> going through interwikis for a particular article and moving all the images
> over to Commons & sorting/rationalizing/removing-duplicates, and updating
> the links. In those situations I absolutely hate editing (as an anon, of
> course, since I can't be troubled to create accounts on the Urdu WP, the
> Uighur WP, the French WP...) and then finding myself wondering what went
> wrong with my edit? Why didn't it save? I *thought* I hit the right button,
> that's where the save button usually is.
>
> Eventually I realize I'd found one of the WPs which had turned forced
> preview on. Cursing their choice, I hunt around and eventually commit my
> edit.
>
> Please don't argue for En to become one of those.


This sounds to me like a compelling argument for single-user login across
projects, rather than turning on preview for anonymous editing.

Incidentally, surely this could be tied in with the proposal for a special
class of anons that's being discussed elsewhere on the list?

Johnleemk