On 11 July 2014 17:10, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Maybe it's a cookie-based approach you had in mind? Where we automatically
create an account tied to the user agent. That would mitigate the issue of
converting a pseudo-account that might have been shared between several
people to a proper account, but not completely get rid of it.
I'd have thought the chain of events "go to a library computer, do some
edits, decide to upgrade to a real account, do so, realise you've
inadvertently swept up all the unsalubrious penis vandalism that has been
made on that computer previously" would be unacceptably common.
--HM