On 10/28/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just speaking for myself, I would not have bothered
with using AFC as an
anon. You can't really draw firm conclusions from AFC about the entire
population of anon editors because it's self-selecting - those who *really*
want an article, as opposed to those who casually think "Hey, I could start
a one-para article on this thing I know" are probably more inclined to use
AFC.
Or create an account, which is the *first* suggestion in the
"Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" text.
In that sense I think "turning off anon article creation" is a
positive thing. At least it encourages people not to reveal their IP
address when creating an article.
Make it easier to create an account (put account creation/login at the
bottom of edit/create page), and I could see "turning off all anon
editing", since it'd actually be making anon editing *more* anonymous.