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

Fri Jun 30 16:56:15 UTC 2006

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:06:22 -0700
From: Stan Shebs 
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] 
To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
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Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

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>* Many people won't be uploading images if it requires email registration
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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.

Stan

Agreed. Tried it out again, for the first time in months, and it's amazing how many junk images are uploaded.

Nick/Zanimum

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