--- John Lee <johnleemk(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Like Fred, I think this goes against the spirit of a
Wiki. Wikis thrive
on the contributions of anonymous people. We wouldn't be anywhere near
as successful as we are today if we didn't give anons the freedom they
have now.
Wiki is a means to end, not an end in itself. We are buiding an encycloedia
here first and foremost. So when the people who are on new page patrol start to
complain about the volume of anon-created substubs and junk new pages, then we
should take that seriously. Looking at the issue, it would seem that making it
a bit more difficult for anons to create new pages (or at least sub-200 byte
pages) would solve a large part of the problem. Anons will still be able to
edit and at this point *improving* the articles we already have should be
encouraged over creating more tiny articles.
But this should be a wiki-by-wiki feature. Smaller wikis *need* to encourage
the creation of many small articles in order to seed topics. With well over
300,000 articles, the English Wikipedia no longer needs to do concentrate on
that so much. We already have too many seeds for the amount of fertilizer and
water on hand.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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