Brion
Vibber wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
> On 12/11/06, Florian Straub <flominator(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>> Awesome! Is there any chance to activate it directly for new
>> registrations
>> on commons or do they people have to confirm their adresses first?
> Thanks, Brion. Specifically, could we require that new registered
> users must have a confirmed email address before uploading? With talk
> page email notifications as default setting.
That's a complete about-face from Wikimedia's traditional policy of
allowing anonymous contributions, so before I set that up I'd need to
know this is acceptable to Wikimedia.
(I should clarify that I think it's a
good idea, personally. But I would
not feel comfortable implementing that policy without both community
agreement and approval from upstairs for the ground rules changing
dramatically.)
I've just talked to Elian. She said that if it was a consensus between
the
commons people it would be ok.