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

Mon Nov 13 12:47:03 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.)

I've just talked to Elian. She said that if it was a consensus between the 
commons people it would be ok.

What do we do? Poll?

Regards,

Flo 