On 12/5/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new
pages creation for
anonymous users in the English Wikipedia.
I applaud Jimbo for taking this bold move. Experiments like this can
prove to be very useful, and the potential for harm is very small.
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It seems to me that the first thing we can do is try
to reduce the
workload on the people doing new pages patrol. A fairly extensive
monitoring and survey of new pages conducted by me over the past few
days, coupled with discussions with several people who keep an eye on
such things, suggests that we can have a substantial improvement here by
eliminating the ability for anons to make new pages.
Have you written up a summary of the monitoring and survey you've
performed? One thing that's useful in "experiments" is metrics. It'd
be nice to see just how this change does affect things, rather than
speculating about it.
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