On 6/21/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
It is not clear to me that it did. I would love for us to have some serious analysis of that.
My sense is that the number of articles created by unknown people is about the same, but that they now sign up for an account first. This is not helpful, because whereas before we had the rough indicator of "ip number equals newbie" (imperfect), we now have less of an indicator.
Still got it you just use redlinks instead
What I would prefer to see, in the long run, is a replacement of locking and controls by flagging and visibility. This is core to what I think works: not gatekeeping, but accountability.
Uninforcable
The issue we have, but so far only in English Wikipedia, and to a lesser degree elsewhere, I think, is that the sheer volume of crap that the new pages patrollers have to deal with means that every day we are making major mistakes that could be dealt with better through openness than through controls. (Openness in this case meaning: visibility and accountability.)
Alrewadyy pretty open when it comes to deletion. The deletion logs are there and nothing to stop you asking the person who deleted it why.