[Wikipedia-l] Require confirmed email address to upload images?

Thu Jun 29 02:26:47 UTC 2006

On 29/06/06, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> >* Many people won't be uploading images if it requires email registration
> >
> Please please please let it be so! After having to mark several
> thousand bad uploads for deletion, and realizing it was just a
> tiny percentage of the total problem, I'd agree to anything that
> would stop the deluge of sh!t.
>
> I think it's hard for people who haven't worked on image cleanup
> to realize how much grunt work is created by the hundreds and
> sometimes thousands of bad uploads that accumulate each and every day.

I have to agree. Image contributions are not equivalent to text
contributions at all. While many people who are ignorant of copyright
can make non-copyvio text contributions it seems impossible for them
to make non-copyvio image contributions.

As for requiring email address... eh. They are typically just as
throwaway as a wiki account. I have no problem with the current method
of deleting with extreme prejudice. By deleting such images WP is not
missing much.

It depends if you want to implement this as a way of verifying
licenses (I don't think it will help with this), or as a way to slow
down image uploaders (it will slow them down, but I think it's a bit
underhanded). Now what would be REALLY good to slow down problem
uploaders would be if we could block users from uploading, only ( see
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4995 , my baby!). Seems
like it could be really handy on en.wp too. Because copyvio image
users do not also tend to be copyvio text users, that's my
observation.

cheers,
Brianna
en.wp,commons:User:pfctdayelise