Author: wikimedia.org
Description:
People often make an anonymous change to a Wikipedia page, and later want to
claim it as their own. The current method of fulfilling such requests is so
highly manual, and the demand for this service so great, that the page on which
users are supposed to make such requests has been changed to include a big red
box saying "Service suspended - Edits have not been reattributed for some
months. There are no indications when requests made here will be executed, if
ever."
I don't see why this is not simply an automatic service. There's a great demand
for it, and, although I am not familiar with the wiki code, it seems that it
should be almost trivial to implement. Specifically, something along these lines:
Just put a "Claim attribution" link in each page's "Toolbox" . If you click it,
and if your IP address matches any of the IP addresses of anonymous comments on
the page, then they're instantly and automatically assigned to your username.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement