[WikiEN-l] Anons banned from creating articles

Wed Dec 7 13:18:21 UTC 2005

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Jimmy Wales wrote:

> The increase in number of users seems out of proportion; he
> theorizes that this has more to do with our massive press coverage
> than anything else. It'll like some more time to really assess
> this.
>
> --Jimbo
>
>
Anecdotal evidence from an avid RC patroller:

I get the feeling that more people are registering accounts for the
purposes of creating bad articles, that previously would have been
created as anonymous users. This is somewhat annoying, since it means
that when I'm running CDVF I have to look at every new page created,
rather than just those created by anons. So there's a semi-serious
drawback for RC patrollers.

However, I also get the feeling that far fewer bad articles are being
created, especially those of the "adshfsfhdsfhahdf" variety. We still
get a lot of vanity and spam but those people would have been creating
their articles either way. Instead, nonsense vandals -- since they
can't create their own articles to vandalize -- are blanking other
more, which is far easier to catch and revert. So overall I
(tentatively) think this is making life much easier for RC patrol.

Ryan
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