[Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

Mon Nov 13 11:12:50 UTC 2006

Brion Vibber wrote:
> Brianna Laugher wrote:
>> On 12/11/06, Florian Straub <flominator at 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.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)