--- John Lee johnleemk@yahoo.com wrote:
Like Fred, I think this goes against the spirit of a Wiki. Wikis thrive on the contributions of anonymous people. We wouldn't be anywhere near as successful as we are today if we didn't give anons the freedom they have now.
Wiki is a means to end, not an end in itself. We are buiding an encycloedia here first and foremost. So when the people who are on new page patrol start to complain about the volume of anon-created substubs and junk new pages, then we should take that seriously. Looking at the issue, it would seem that making it a bit more difficult for anons to create new pages (or at least sub-200 byte pages) would solve a large part of the problem. Anons will still be able to edit and at this point *improving* the articles we already have should be encouraged over creating more tiny articles.
But this should be a wiki-by-wiki feature. Smaller wikis *need* to encourage the creation of many small articles in order to seed topics. With well over 300,000 articles, the English Wikipedia no longer needs to do concentrate on that so much. We already have too many seeds for the amount of fertilizer and water on hand.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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