[WikiEN-l] [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]] for anonymous creation of articles

Tue Dec 6 14:02:38 UTC 2005

Gerrit Holl wrote:

>Stan Shebs wrote:
>  
>
>>>Um, in what way is this easier than, well, creating an account?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>It's not, but there are a remarkable number of longtime good editors
>>who apparently do not want to create accounts (I've come to recognize
>>some familiar IPs). Part of the experiment is to see what anons decide
>>to do when a restriction is applied - for instance, if we get a surge
>>in throwaway logins and no benefit in content quality, that might
>>suggest the problem is with pseudonymy rather than anonymity.
>>    
>>
>
>Can't we change the rule "anon's can't create pages" to "anons with
>editcount<x timespan <y" can't create pages?
>
>Gerrit.
>
>  
>
Not as simple as you may think. Often IPs are dynamic and/or shared with 
others. Some people on them are vandals and others are valuable 
contributors.

John Lee
([[User:Johnleemk]])