[Wikipedia-l] Re:vandals

Mon Nov 18 17:02:38 UTC 2002

The Cunctator wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 09:40, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
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>>Maybe we need to go with the "grey list" & "e-mail authentication" ideas
>>that Neil Harris proposed.
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>Those are profoundly bad ideas for Wikipedia. They represent a complete
>shift in the basic policy of openness, trust, and ease of use that makes
>this project successful.
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I agree that openness, trust, and ease of use are essential goals.  

The greylist idea is intended to make the Wikipedia accessible to users 
who share a proxy with a vandal, not to restrict the 99.99% of ordinary 
users, logged-in or otherwise.

The alternative is to blacklist IPs shared with vandals, which also 
blocks all other users on those IP ranges from editing.  Unless you have 
another alternative?

Neil