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

Tue Dec 6 16:27:46 UTC 2005

Gerrit Holl wrote:

>Stan Shebs wrote:
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>>>Um, in what way is this easier than, well, creating an account?
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>>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.
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>Can't we change the rule "anon's can't create pages" to "anons with
>editcount<x timespan <y" can't create pages?
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>Gerrit.
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That will automatically allow every single AOL or school proxy, since 
there's ton of edits from there (many oif them quite old), and many of 
those edits are of the class we want the least.

grm_wnr