[WikiEN-l] Experiment on new pages

Mon Dec 5 15:36:08 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>But preveneting anons from creating new pages is a different matter, and
>it seems a worthy time to make an experiment of it.
>  
>
I suppose I'm not really sure what this will buy us.  It only takes away 
the class of problems: "page doesn't exist, anon creats a bad one".  
These are actually among the easiest to spot.  Much harder are: "page 
exists as a stub, anon adds a sentence to it that is bad".  These are 
harder to spot, and this does not address that; in fact, it will 
encourage troublesome anons to just find existing articles to put 
misinformation into, rather than creating new ones.  I think, on the 
whole, that would be *more* of a problem.

-Mark