[WikiEN-l] Turn off article creation AND deletion.

Sun Dec 11 14:15:10 UTC 2005

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> This could in theory be a part of the (is it a joke, perhaps not
> anymore?) concept of a "working vacation day" on January 15th.
> Fantasize that for a single day, we turn off anon editing, we turn off
> account creation, turn off article creation and deletion.
> Freeze the table of contents, freeze the staff, and have a day of
> "cleaning up" without all the noise. :-)

Make it a week - second or third week of January.

As proposed elsewhere in the thread, allow article creation in
userspace. 'Cos you *know* saying "you can't create articles" will just
make people want to create articles ;-) (Expect a flood of stubs the
week before!)

- d.