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

Tue Nov 14 00:24:58 UTC 2006

Florian Straub wrote:
>> 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.

No disrespect to Elian, but since when does she set Wikimedia-wide
policy singlehandedly?

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)