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

Wed Dec 7 14:48:12 UTC 2005

On 12/5/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Sam Korn <smoddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/5/05, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
> > > What is this:
> > >
> > > "This site has restricted the ability to create new pages. If you wish
> > > to create a new page, you must first create an account or log in
> > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin>.
> > >
> > > If you'd rather not create an account or log in, consider listing a
> > > request for someone else to create the page here
> > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles>."
> > >
> > > Since when is this wikimedia policy to restrict this?
> >
> > Since a few hours ago. It is more of a test than anything else.  Brion
> > implemented it today on Jimbo's request a few hours ago, so that some
> > kind of results can be obtained.  There is certainly not consensus
> > support for it in the community, though a large faction certainly do
> > agree.  I think this is "wait and see" time.
>
> For the record, I very strongly support this. This is due to the fact that almost all, not just
> most, new pages created by anons on the English Wikipedia are borderline to complete crap.

Do we have stats on that?