Thread:Extension talk:ConfirmEdit/Reverts on ConfirmEdit's QuestyCaptcha/reply (6)

I would support keeping the information. Here are my main points:
 * 1) A user of MediaWiki can do what they want or need, whether it's supported or not.
 * 2) MediaWiki can choose whether to support a method. (If it is sensible of course)
 * 3) It depends on a wiki's scope whether to add information, guidelines, etc. on such information.

On (1), a MediaWiki user could use it as described, to use QuestyCaptcha as an editting password. I can think of a use-case for this, such as when a wiki-admin decides it is too cumbersome to create accounts by-hand and can simply distribute the key to a group of people who is supposed to edit. Of course, as User:Christharp said, it can provide ease to the wiki-admin, as a they can do what they want, the task should be to make what is sensible, simple? It's a clever idea, one that a clever wiki-admin could figure out for themselves. Ideas such as these should be told to others who may need such a feature, but haven't thought of using it for the purpose of restricting access.

On (2), MediaWiki (and along with it, the Wikimedia Foundation) has their own incentives, and concepts such as free information, open access, the wiki way etc. However, a wiki may have many uses, perhaps it is a private wiki for company-information, or a "personal" wiki which does not concern the rest of the public and is limited to members of a group. It my opinion that some of these incentives should be encouraged but never mandatory for a MediaWiki user.

On (3), MediaWiki.org's sole task is to document the usage of MediaWiki and related software. As this is a clever use that uses the software, it depends on whether they support it (point (2)), or whether they should distribute this information.