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

[The Cunctator]

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 turn page creation back on for anons. We turned it off, so let's
> see what happens when we turn it back on; otherwise we're simply
> running on sheer blind inertia and unthinking myopia. Every month
> since Dec. 2005 we should have been asking whether the costs have been
> worth the benefits.

I don't think we're both blind and myopic, but otherwise I
wholeheartedly agree. Turn on anon page creation, maybe in Dec 2006 so
we have a year's worth of data to compare to.