On 8/30/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/30/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I have no idea where he did it, but one instance would be when creation of new articles was restricted.
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He said it on his blog, IIRC. It was in reply to (I believe) that textfiles.com guy, Scott something (or was it Nicholas Carr?), who was going around saying that semi-protection proved Wikipedia was a failure.
Um, Anthony is referring to it becoming less possible for new users to make accounts (certainly a drop in open-ness); you are referring to semi-protection (something different entirely and _arguably_ an improvement in open-ness).