On 8/21/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
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.
We don't need to. We saw what happened in the 4 years before it was turned off.
Yes. We saw Wikipedia take off and far surpass Nupedia (which had anon page creation turned off, incidentally).
Take a look at the monumental failure that is AFC sometime, which turning
off page creation has forced on us. Valid, good articles are being entombed there.
And look at how many nonsense creations are being stopped there too.
It's a lot easier to destroy bad articles than it is to write good ones.
~maru