On 11 July 2014 17:10, Gilles Dubuc <gil...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Maybe it's a cookie-based approach you had in mind? Where we automatically > create an account tied to the user agent. That would mitigate the issue of > converting a pseudo-account that might have been shared between several > people to a proper account, but not completely get rid of it. >
I'd have thought the chain of events "go to a library computer, do some edits, decide to upgrade to a real account, do so, realise you've inadvertently swept up all the unsalubrious penis vandalism that has been made on that computer previously" would be unacceptably common. --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
