[Foundation-l] Anonymous page creation?

[Matthew Britton]

--- Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2007.11.11 02:31:34 +0000, geni <geniice at gmail.com>
> scribbled 0 lines:
> > On 11/11/2007, Wiki Dudeman <wikidudeman at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > > When exactly will anonymous page creations be
> enabled? I thought it was supposed to happen yesterday
> but it never did.
> > >
> >
> >
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Anon_page_creation
> >
> > --
> > geni
> 
> Wait, so now it's perfectly fine to have *no consensus
> whatsoever* to do something like disable page creation,
> but to undo it we need even more overwhelming consensus?
> I didn't realize there was such a first-mover advantage
> to Wikipedia processes these days.
> 
> --
> gwern

IIRC it was more of a "Jimbo wants this, therefore it's
going to be done" advantage, combined with concern that
Wikipedia was going to be sued if it turned out too many
more dodgy biographies.

-Gurch