geni wrote:
On 8/28/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Seriously, though, I'm still looking for a response on my request for details when you said "analysis has been done, results will be published" regarding the initial disabling of anon page creation. Who did the analysis? Or did you answer in a different thread that I haven't been reading? I know I'm being a hardass about this, but so far this has been the only lead I'm aware of indicating that any such analysis might actually be taking place.
I second the request if there has been a serious analysis. Anecdotally, I can say that I think that the experiment with disabling page creation for anons has not been particularly useful and that we should turn page creation back on for anons at some point fairly soon.
Should be noting that are avtive admin to article ratio is geting worse which means things may not go back to the way they were before.
All the more reason to begin to put flags on articles so that when they exist the general public only gets those stable versions that have been checked for overt vandalism.
The admin to edit ratio is probably more important than the admin to article ratio. We can expect that the total number of articles will keep going up, but many of those articles are very stable. The only time that the average vandal would even think of looking at them is when they came up through the random page function. A vandal who has an obsession about doing nasty things to articles related to citrus fruit will soon make himself obvious.
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