[Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those.

Fair enough.

So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie?  With some well
designed UX this'd work well and hide IPs entirely (and allow users that
do create an account to retroactively rename their contribs).

Wouldn't that affect caching though?

-- Marc