Jimmy Wales wrote:
This could in theory be a part of the (is it a joke, perhaps not anymore?) concept of a "working vacation day" on January 15th. Fantasize that for a single day, we turn off anon editing, we turn off account creation, turn off article creation and deletion. Freeze the table of contents, freeze the staff, and have a day of "cleaning up" without all the noise. :-)
Make it a week - second or third week of January.
As proposed elsewhere in the thread, allow article creation in userspace. 'Cos you *know* saying "you can't create articles" will just make people want to create articles ;-) (Expect a flood of stubs the week before!)
- d.