[WikiEN-l] Re: Article creation

[David Gerard]

Neil Harris wrote:

>How about the much simpler approach of restricting page creation to
>logged-in users?
>This would act as a minimal speedbump which is probably just enough to
>discourage many (most?) drive-by junk page creators, whilst still
>allowing anons to edit any existing page as freely as before.
>This could be applied only to the main article space, thus allowing
>anons to create talk pages as before.
>This would be similar to the current restriction of image uploads to
>logged-in users.


Sounds plausible. What are the numbers on the problem? What percentage
of anon page creations are shoot-on-sight?

(Adding a new restriction is, of course, NOT something to be done lightly.)


- d.