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

[maru dubshinki]

On 8/21/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> We don't need to. We saw what happened in the 4 years before it was turned
> off.

Yes. We saw Wikipedia take off and far surpass Nupedia (which had anon
page creation turned off, incidentally).

> Take a look at the monumental failure that is AFC sometime, which turning
> > off page
> > creation has forced on us. Valid, good articles are being entombed
> > there.
>
>
> And look at how many nonsense creations are being stopped there too.

It's a lot easier to destroy bad articles than it is to write good ones.

~maru