--- Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Since practical reasons prevent us from doing that, we'll have to compare statistics to the last few month. We should also take opinions (yes!) from the "new pages patrol" people into acount, wether the creation of junk pages has dropped noticably.
Ultimately, to see if reality matches your hypothesis, you'll have to apply the conditions of that hypothesis to reality and see if it matches the expected outcome. That's what we are doing. If the results do not match our expectations, thus proving our theory wrong, we'll take the changes back; I have no doubt about this.
We also have to measure whether or not the problem has just shifted from anons to new users (really, anons whos only motivation to create an account was being prevented from creating a new page). If that is the case, then we may need to extend the experiment to newly created user accounts as well.
-- mav
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