On 28/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/28/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Wasn't anon page creation turned off by Jimmy (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village%20pump%20%28tech... If so, wasn't that a Foundation action (if Jimmy was just acting on his own, where is this stated?)?
It wasn't a Foundation decision. I'm not sure where this was stated publicly, though.
Jimmy Wales announced an end to anon page creation on this list (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html): "Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new pages creation for anonymous users in the English Wikipedia."
I had taken "we" to mean the Foundation. It certainly wasn't a community (and therefore wasn't a project) decision.