On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're talking about a test, not a broad rollout (: > > I'm curious, Risker: if you don't mind my asking, what about being required > to supply a throwaway email address would have discouraged you from opening > a Wikimedia account? > > Having the email address attached to my account means that i can do password reset, which has been rather helpful on a number of occasions.
It's a bit sad for folks who don't provide email, that there's not much we can do to help them recover their account if they forget their password. I understand that it can be a bit scary to have to provide this information (what about a throwaway?), but yet is a tradeoff. Cheers, Katie > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
