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

Mon Nov 13 12:26:52 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.
> 

Anonymous text with the release "I wrote this" is one thing. Anonymous
images are another.

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