[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages

Mon Dec 5 19:55:04 UTC 2005

Should we have a page where anons can request a page be started? Otherwise 
it might lead to some frustration.

Martin (User:Bluemoose)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com>
To: <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 7:13 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages

> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> SPUI wrote:
>>> Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>>
>>>> Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new pages creation for
>>>> anonymous users in the English Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Does this apply to all pages, or just articles? It seems that IPs should
>>> still be able to create talk pages, both for articles and for users.
>>
>> We'll have to ask Brion, but what you say sounds perfectly reasonable to 
>> me.
>
> Talk pages are separately controlled, and anons can indeed still create 
> them.
>
> I've gone ahead and turned on the restriction mode, per Jimmy's order. 
> Notes:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Anon_page_creation_restriction
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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