> > On Jun 14, 2012 1:30 AM, "Brandon Harris" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > A couple of weeks ago, Brion Vibber and I started walking through > a series of thoughts about eliminating publicly viewable IP addresses > altogether, creating "Proto Accounts". That is, to completely anonymize > anonymous users (by calling them "Anonymous XXXXXX") and at the same time > creating system whereby Anonymous users might be encouraged to become > registered users (and retain the edits they did anonymously). > > > > This would work by "back-loading" the account creation process: > > > > 1) User makes anonymous edit (as "Anonymous 1234"). Edit > is logged as "Anonymous 1234"). > > 2) User is given call-to-action to convert to a registered > account. > > 3) User fills out account form (username, password, email) > (let's call them "AwesomeSauce89") > > 4) Proto account gets renamed to "AwesomeSauce89"; the > edits that were under "Anonymous 1234" are now listed as being by > "AwesomeSauce89" > > > > I also spoke with Tim Starling about this in Berlin and he agreed > that it was a good idea. However, this would be no small feat. A big part > of the problems involved in this type of anonymizing involve how we deal > with range blocks. > > Would this be something people might like to see. . >
If I understand it well, YEAH. Aubrey _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
