On 04-Jun-2012, at 8:18 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Alan Millar <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just caught an instance of vandalism >> >> openlibrary.org/works/OL12545048W?m=history >> >> Looks like this one work is a target of recurring vandalism. >> >> Any ways to better prevent this? > > One thing that would help is to require people to have accounts to be > able to edit Open Library, unless anonymous edit support is providing > some benefit.
There were some discussions internally about it. We'll be disabling anonymous edits soon. > I accidentally discovered the other day that even author merges don't > require authentication, which seems particularly dangerous. Oops. That was a bug. author-merges were never intended for anonymous users. It is fixed now. Thanks for pointing it. Anand _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
