On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Mohamed Magdy mohamed.m.k@gmail.com wrote:
We don't protect (or disable editing by IPs) *all* the articles because someone abused *some* of them and kept vandalizing.
IPs vandalizing don't take over your accounts and wreak havoc on the sites. Java in Zip has that potential.
IPs vandalizing to not result in converting commons into a warez repository will with illicitly copied games, system cracking tools, and other undesirable content being distributed undetected for months/years at a time. Zip in PDF and rar appended PDF have resulted in this.
There is a transparency to Wiki which makes open wiki's viable. Text-in-upload lacks that transparency and that leads to problems. We need to strike a good balance. Unscrubbed PDF and ZIP uploads are not an especially good balance.