[WikiEN-l] Userbox fads

Thu Jan 5 22:29:31 UTC 2006

Matt Brown wrote:

>I think it's inevitable that given the high profile Wikipedia is
>increasingly having, more people are getting involved - and a smaller
>proportion of them are highly interested in developing an
>encyclopedia.  Wikipedia is in one of the "top sites" spots now, like
>it or not.
>
We *do* encourage people to create accounts, telling them that it
"takes only a few seconds, and has many benefits". Also, even
read-only people still need the account to be able to set
preferences.

If we really don't want non-editors creating accounts and user
pages, we could start by not soliciting them to do so.

Stan