[WikiEN-l] Blocking anon page creation was an experiment, wasn't it?

[Kelly Martin]

On 8/20/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I'm quoting from
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/033880.html)
>
> Jimbo wrote once:
> "Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new pages creation for
> anonymous users in the English Wikipedia."
>
> This was way back in 5 Dec 2005. Has the experiment run long enough?
> What sort of experiment varies the independent variable only one way?

Let's wait a bit before we do that.  I understand there's a study of
the effect that turning off anon creation had, but it's not yet ready
for publication.  I think we should wait to see that study until we
act.

Kelly