[Wikipedia-l] a way to contact IP users

Mon Nov 25 14:59:03 UTC 2002

On Monday 25 November 2002 09:43, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> How about giving admins the ability to throw up a "Please read this"
> message.
>
> Something like this:
> * User submits an edit
> * Wikipedia accepts the edit, and...
> * Sends user to a "You have an urgent administrative message" page.
>
> User can then:
> * Click on the "Read message" button, or
> * Just ignore it
>
> We can think of variations, like, send the user directly to the message
> page, rather than the "you have a message waiting". Another, for egregious
> cases, would send the user to the "message waiting" or 'please acknowledge
> this' page after EVERY edit, until the click an OKAY button.

Sounds good, but we'd still have trouble contacting the AOLer who's been 
writing pages consisting only of someone's birthdate.

phma