| abian added a comment. |
It can be easily understood from my wording that the measure I expose would mean closing off the project more, but I don't think that's the case. I think the obligation to register doesn't reduce the set of people from whom we accept contributions, or at least we should consider that all administrative actions we currently have to apply reduce this set of potential contributors more significantly.
As an alternative, I can only think of forcing users to register but just to edit labels, descriptions and aliases (T189412 is related, though not the same). According to the data (2015) from "Towards Vandalism Detection in Knowledge Bases: Corpus Construction and Analysis", 95% of the vandalism on labels/descriptions/aliases was carried out by unregistered users, and only the remaining 5% was carried out by registered users. Considering the total number of bad edits made by unregistered users, 63% were made on labels/descriptions/aliases, 31% on sitelinks, 5% on statements and 1% on "misc". I continue thinking that forcing users to register to edit anywhere would be a better approach, especially because these values would change dramatically, but also wanted to mention an alternative (or... well, half-alternative).
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