David Gerard, 16/01/2014 17:05:
WMF has been very bad at making "limited
trials" that are in fact
limited. (We're been in the "limited trial" of anons not being able to
create articles on en:wp since 2007, for instance.)
2005 "as an experiment", actually.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newly_registered_user>
Nemo