[WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results

[Andrew Turvey]

Non-logged in people cant create new articles. 

----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 17:10:41 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Charles 
> Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote: 
> > Carcharoth wrote: 
> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >> 
> >>> I'd be in favor of a "Draft:" namespace, which users could use for drafting 
> >>> articles. Content to be non-spidered. That way we can tell a user to see if 
> >>> some other user has started work on a draft already. 
> >>> 
> >>> This would possibly help collaboration, ensure only credible articles get 
> >>> mainspaced, yet retain "anyone can edit" and the gradual development of 
> >>> stubs without pressure to delete. 
> >>> 
> >>> Thoughts? 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> It's been suggested before. What it needs is someone to drive the idea forward. 
> >> 
> >> 
> > Notice that if you now try to start the page [[dummydummy]], you get 
> > offered the chance to draft it at [[Special:MyPage/Dummydummy 
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyPage/Dummydummy&action=edit>]]. 
> > I'm not entirely clear what the preferred route is from there. But I 
> > imagine suggestions for drafting as more systematically encouraged 
> > should be grafted onto this use of special pages. 
> 
> I *think* that is only for people who are logged in. 
> 
> Carcharoth 
> 
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