Delirium wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Well at least so far, it seems that there have been two effects:
- fewer crappy pages created
- the ones that are create are as easy to identify as ever, since some
of the anons are converting into 'anonymous redshirts' (i.e. users with no userpage).
You forgot: 3. more crappy edits to existing articles (anecdotally).
I agree we should collect more data, but we can't forget collecting data on #3, or else it will be pretty useless.
I agee. There are probably a number of other small second-order effects as well. For example, by encouraging new users to register when they want to create a page, are we positively increasing the number of "good wikipedians" by transforming good people from "well, I edit sometimes, but I'm not a wikipedian, I don't have an account" to "Hey, I guess I'm a wikipedian, I'll do more good work"?
I doubt if we are in a position to figure that out.
--Jimbo