[WikiEN-l] Anons banned from creating articles

Wed Dec 7 14:28:43 UTC 2005

On 12/7/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Those two are, quite obviously, difficult to measure.  Indeed, it is
> very hard to come up with appropriate simple metrics, and so I think
> what we need to do instead is take a holistic approach.  We have a rough
> idea of the tradeoffs here, and we can see if things are working out the
> way we expect.
>
> "    * As a new page patroller, the new system does seem to be working.
> It's pleasant to be spending more time fixing useful articles, and less
> time getting rid of newbie tests. Kappa 15:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)"
>
> That's a valid voice.  But only one.  What problems are we seeing?
>
> Netoholic gathered some first-pass statistics:
>         Before  After
> New pages       2050    1622
> Article deletions       1309    929
> New users       3241    6370 (!)
>
> 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.

What's the time period here? We should continue this listing here.

It looks like this change may increase the percentage of "dead" accounts.

Other statistics of interest would be the percentage of IP to registered edits.