On 8/20/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
(I'm quoting from http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html)
Jimbo wrote once: "Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new pages creation for anonymous users in the English Wikipedia."
This was way back in 5 Dec 2005. Has the experiment run long enough? What sort of experiment varies the independent variable only one way?
Let's turn page creation back on for anons. We turned it off, so let's see what happens when we turn it back on; otherwise we're simply running on sheer blind inertia and unthinking myopia. Every month since Dec. 2005 we should have been asking whether the costs have been worth the benefits.
I don't think we're both blind and myopic, but otherwise I wholeheartedly agree. Turn on anon page creation, maybe in Dec 2006 so we have a year's worth of data to compare to.