Yeah, he said it doesn't seem to be working, and it's not open. So when is this policy change going to be reverted?
A good question. There seems to be a slight majority in favor of repealing that change (if I may be permitted to make a totally unscientific and biased estimate) on this list.
That said, I think most are either waiting for the year (and more importantly, [[Eternal September|September]]) to end, to turn over a fresh lear; or they are waiting for the long promised statistical analyses.
~maru
If we do decide to turn it off, perhaps we should decide ahead of time what statistics we'd like to watch, and collect them for a month or two ahead of time. Things like current rate of new article creation, rate of speedy deletes, average number of people doing new pages patrol per day, stress-level of new pages patrollers.... ;)
If we do that this time, we'll have some real figures to go by to judge what the difference is with anon page creation off and on.
Catherine