Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Numerous discussions with Wikipedians, Foundation
leaders, and
Foundation staff going back for more than a year have generally been
positive about the idea of re-enabling anonymous page creation.
In the time since late 2005 the English Wikipedia community has grown
substantially. The nearly exponential growth rate in articles we
previously experienced has stopped. Even if disabling anon page
creation was beneficial then, there is no current evidence suggesting
that the change continues to be beneficial. As such, barring
complications, anonymous page creation will be re-enabled on English
Wikipedia on Friday November 9th.
After a one month period, on December 9th, we will re-evaluate this
decision using previously established methods (average article
lifespan, rate of deletion, manual quality classification, random
samplings of newly created articles, and most importantly, community
discussion). If there is evidence of harm, anonymous page creation
will be disabled to collect more data and provide time for discussion.
If there is no significant evidence of harm, the issue will be
evaluated again after six months. Further milestones and actions may
be proposed at that time.
Finally the community will have the chance to make an informed
decision on this subject. It would have been best if that had happened
initially, but it wasn't possible then.
Out of curiosity, was this discussed or presented to the community at
large before a decision was made?
--Darkwind
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