But instead of increased patrolling and speedy
deletions, this
could be implemented in the Mediawiki software. If a user (logged
in or IP address) tries to create a new page, their recent
contribution history could be checked, and if any of their five
most recently created articles (except redirects) are shorter
than, say, 300 bytes, they would simply be unable to create
another article. This would be a very soft kind of blocking (as
soon as you have improved your existing article, you can start the
next one), each case being completely an affair between the user
and the software, not involving opinions of individual admins.
Such an extension (is there an "article creation hook"?) could be
fully parameterized, so each community could decide where to set
the limits (5 recently created articles, 300 bytes), and what
message to show to the user who violates these limits.
Has this been suggested before? Has it been implemented? Would
it be a really bad idea to suggest this?
I can't see any reason why it couldn't be implemented (I don't know
how easy it would be). Before anyone actually spends time coding it,
though, is there a consensus on the Swedish Wikipedia to use such a
system or is it just your idea? If it's the latter, then you should
probably establish a consensus first (since I'm not sure other
projects would use the extension, it's not really worth writing if you
aren't going to use it).