[WikiEN-l] Anons banned from creating articles

Mon Dec 5 13:39:53 UTC 2005

John Lee wrote:
> http://news.com.com/Growing+pains+for+Wikipedia/2100-1025_3-5981119.html?tag=cd.top 
> 
> 
> "Thus, to avoid future problems, Wales plans to bar anonymous users from 
> creating new articles; only registered members will be able to do so. 
> That change will go into effect Monday, he said, adding that anonymous 
> users will still be able to edit existing entries."
> 
> Why were Wikipedians the last to know about this? I only saw some 
> discussion on the mailing list about this, but nothing final. Why do we 
> have to learn of this from the media instead of straight from Jimbo? 
> This is really disturbing.

It's like Celera Genomics and the Human Genome Project. It's policy by 
press release!

Chris