We don't need this. Cleanup is way overrated as compared to the athmosphere of freedom and participation which a wiki fosters.
Fred
From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 01:57:43 -0700 (PDT) To: SWAdair@computermail.net, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Sub-stub city
This sounds like a good idea. Another idea would be to not allow anons to create new articles (editing existing articles would still be allowed). They would get a message after following a red link that invites them to create a user account so that they can create a new page (and list some advantages of being a logged-in editor).
With 300K+ articles I think we should start more concerted efforts to encourage expanding the articles we already have and somewhat de-emphasize the creation of new articles (esp stubs).