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

Tue Nov 14 10:08:54 UTC 2006

"Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com> wrote On  Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:24 
AM
> 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?

She wasn't setting wikimedia-wide policies, she just mentioned her opinion.. 
But it's at least a small tendency. What about casting a vote for this, then 
we'll see what the rest of us thinks.

Best regards,

Flo 