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Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors (lemmy.ca)
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[–] sureok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

How would that work without accounts?

I'd like to make anonymous edits to WP and personally resent their lack of accommodation of that. But I don't have a very solid proposal as to how it could be done. So must forgive them.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

You'd need some kind of account system, but you could probably get away with just signing your edits. If the same key is used to sign an edit, then it can be considered the same "user" even if there's no persistent account associated w/ it. You'd need to register a public key, but that's about it.