On 12/5/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/05, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote:
What is this:
"This site has restricted the ability to create new pages. If you wish to create a new page, you must first create an account or log in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin.
If you'd rather not create an account or log in, consider listing a request for someone else to create the page here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles."
Since when is this wikimedia policy to restrict this?
Since a few hours ago. It is more of a test than anything else. Brion implemented it today on Jimbo's request a few hours ago, so that some kind of results can be obtained. There is certainly not consensus support for it in the community, though a large faction certainly do agree. I think this is "wait and see" time.
For the record, I very strongly support this. This is due to the fact that almost all, not just most, new pages created by anons on the English Wikipedia are borderline to complete crap.
Do we have stats on that?