On 10/28/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
Just speaking for myself, I would not have bothered with using AFC as an anon. You can't really draw firm conclusions from AFC about the entire population of anon editors because it's self-selecting - those who *really* want an article, as opposed to those who casually think "Hey, I could start a one-para article on this thing I know" are probably more inclined to use AFC.
Or create an account, which is the *first* suggestion in the "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact title" text.
In that sense I think "turning off anon article creation" is a positive thing. At least it encourages people not to reveal their IP address when creating an article.
Make it easier to create an account (put account creation/login at the bottom of edit/create page), and I could see "turning off all anon editing", since it'd actually be making anon editing *more* anonymous.