[Wikipedia-l] a way to contact IP users

[Neil Harris]

Larry Sanger wrote:

>Ed,
>
>I know you mean very well, and that you're trying to help solve an
>important problem, but I'm generally opposed to giving admins any special
>powers that they do not already have have.  Maybe give everyone this
>power?
>
>Isn't there another way to achieve what you are trying to achieve?
>
>Larry
>
>On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
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>
I agree with Larry on this. All logged-in users (or maybe even all 
users) should have the power to send a message to unregistered IPs: 
there is no need for a similar power to talk to logged-in users, as the 
talk page will already work for them.

Perhaps this could be done by just editing the [[User:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]] 
page for the appropriate IP.

Neil  

>  
>
>>How about giving admins the ability to throw up a "Please read this" message.
>>
>>Something like this:
>>* User submits an edit
>>* Wikipedia accepts the edit, and...
>>* Sends user to a "You have an urgent administrative message" page.
>>
>>User can then:
>>* Click on the "Read message" button, or
>>* Just ignore it
>>
>>We can think of variations, like, send the user directly to the message page, rather than the "you have a message waiting". Another, for egregious cases, would send the user to the "message waiting" or 'please acknowledge this' page after EVERY edit, until the click an OKAY button.
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>>Ed poor
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