[WikiEN-l] Registration system and blocks

Sat Dec 25 13:14:07 UTC 2004

Your suggestion was appropriate and appreciated. I suspect our more
technically inclined mailing list posters greatly exaggerate the ease with
which the average vandal (after all, their average age must be about 8)
could create numerous accounts. Our experience at Wikinfo since requiring
that they at least create an account has resulted in a number of dead
accounts, but still a major reduction in drop-in vandalism. (But perhaps we
have lost some helpful edits too).

Fred

> From: "Abe Sokolov" <abesokolov at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:01:13 +0000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Registration system and blocks
> 
> No one wants to dissuade casual editors from editing on Wikipedia. However,
> vandals exist and they are problems. You and your mailing list cabal would
> know this if you spent more time actually editing articles on Wikipedia.
> 
> -172