[Foundation-l] Anons cannot create pages on english wikipedia?

SJ 2.718281828 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 15:22:06 UTC 2005


On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, The Cunctator wrote:
> On 12/5/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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?

New, usable articles created by anons accounted for around 40% of all new 
articles.  This ignores speedied articles, etc which might inflate the 
figure in favor of anon-creation.

Lots of them need wikification and start life as stubs; I wouldn't call 
that "crap".

SJ



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