Umm. No. If ever you want major pushback from the broad international community, requiring any kind of "documentation" to open an account will probably work very well. I certainly would never have signed up for an account on Wikipedia if I'd had to supply an email address.
Risker/Anne On 9 November 2014 00:21, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Discussing an option with the community to test replacing registration > CAPTCHAs with an email requirement makes sense to me. I would support a > small, carefully designed test. If someone is motivated to create a > Wikimedia account and they don't want to register an email, they can be > given the option to have someone help them to set up an account via IRC, > Facebook, or other communications methods. > > I'd very much like to hear input from stewards who deal with cross-wiki > spambots, so I suggest that the designers of the test consult with one or > more stewards during the test design process. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
