Wiktionary:Votes/2013-03/Disallow mobile edits by unregistered users

Disallow mobile edits by unregistered users

 * Voting on: Blocking unregistered users from making edits from a mobile device (tagged as "Mobile edit"), for one year.

Rationale: So far, almost all edits with the tag "Mobile edit" have been bad, and have been deleted on sight. These edits are an additional burden on our admins who have to delete them. As it stands now, no more than a handful of unregistered mobile edits has actually been good, and the ratio of bad to good seems to be well over 100:1. To show this more explicitly: in the last 30 days, only two mobile edits with any content that is worth keeping have been made by unregistered editors. Most bad edits have been deleted on sight and therefore do not show up in that listing.

It's possible that more people will start using mobile devices, and therefore we may have more good unregistered mobile edits in the future. For that reason the block will last a year. After that year, we will re-evaluate the block to see if the quality of mobile edits has improved.

Mobile view can be seen by accessing Wiktionary on the m subdomain: http://en.m.wiktionary.org. Unregistered mobile visitors are not shown edit links, but editing can be done by constructing a URL through the index.php file with. For example to edit this page in mobile view visit http://en.m.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Votes/2013-03/Disallow_mobile_edits_by_unregistered_users&action=edit.


 * Vote starts: 00:01, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Vote ends: 23:59, 21 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Vote created: 17:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussion:
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] WT:Beer parlour/2013/February
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] WT:Grease pit/2013/January
 * [[Image:Wikt rei-artur3.svg|20px]] Wiktionary talk:Votes/2013-03/Disallow mobile edits by unregistered users

Decision

 * Never begun, archiving. - TheDaveRoss  18:44, 13 October 2017 (UTC)