On 14/01/14 00:18, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote: >> Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those. > > Fair enough. > > So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie? With some well > designed UX this'd work well and hide IPs entirely (and allow users that > do create an account to retroactively rename their contribs).
Yes. > Wouldn't that affect caching though? Not very much. We already give anonymous users a session cookie on edit, which suppresses the frontend cache, the primary reason being (drumroll) user talk page message notification. So the impact would be that the cache-suppressing cookie would have a longer expiry time. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
