[Foundation-l] Anons cannot create pages on english wikipedia?

Tue Dec 6 00:34:40 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> Well at least so far, it seems that there have been two effects:
> 1. fewer crappy pages created

How are we doing for anon edits in general? Has that number changed?

> 2. the ones that are create are as easy to identify as ever, since some
> of the anons are converting into 'anonymous redshirts' (i.e. users with
> no userpage).

Oh, I do like that phrase!

> It will be interesting to try and gather some statistics about all this,
> so we can proceed with actual data.

Always a useful thing to gather in an experiment ;-)

- d.