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

Tue Dec 6 15:44:10 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Well at least so far, it seems that there have been two effects:
>
>1. fewer crappy pages created
>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).
>  
>
You forgot:
3. more crappy edits to existing articles (anecdotally).

I agree we should collect more data, but we can't forget collecting data 
on #3, or else it will be pretty useless.

-Mark