If I recall correctly, Vogue Taiwan's YouTube channel had been freely licensing their videos, so they were able to be screenshotted and uploaded to Commons. But Vogue did not intend to freely license their videos so they ended up being deleted ;(

Passport check has always been the norm (don't want to show up on the other side without it!). Facial recognition has been rolling out over the last few years and is now quite normal.

Another idea someone suggested to me was focused on the positive. If you're logged into Wikipedia, you could automatically send a "thanks" to the editor of each asteroid you blow up. Or, picking up a powerup from a new user registration could send them a welcome message on their talk page.

It's not like, super useful, since other bots and patrol tools would also pick up those edits, but it could still be a fun option for more lighthearted patrolling.

There are existing scoring models that can be used for this, though I'm not sure if they are currently surfaced via event streams.

Making the game "useful" has been on the back of my mind! I've been thinking about vandal patrol. Edits likely to be vandalism could appear differently (e.g. asteroid is red, faster, etc.), and those edits can be logged separately so the user can investigate afterwards.

WikiAsteroids dev here, love that! Thank you for your service 🫡

Yay! Was likely outdated cache before

Added! :)