--- 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. Thus it is sad, but necessary to limit the amount of needless clean-up work that those on new page patrol have to do. Now they can concentrate more effort checking for other things on new pages instead of tagging so many speedies. Id also like to say that this should be decided on a per wiki basis since letting anons create new pages still has more good than bad points for smaller wikis. But the larger a wiki gets, the more overwhelming anon clean-up work is.
Anons will still be able to edit existing articles. This is fine since existing articles are much more likely to be watched by users and decently linked from other pages.
It is also my hope that this will help push the English Wikipedia, however little, a bit from emphasizing growth and a bit more toward emphasizing quality.
-- mav
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