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

[maru dubshinki]

On 8/22/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > My support for the whole endeavour, for one. The appearance of
> > professionalism, for another. This thing looks like it was just a
> > knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity.
>
> There's no doubt, it *was* a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity, but
> not a bad one. Calling it an experiment was a mistake, since everyone
> now expects introduction, method, results, analysis, conclusion, in
> that order. However, we haven't had any more Seigenthalers, and
> there's certainly no sign that anything has become dramatically worse.
> Maybe Wikipedia could have been "even better" than it is now, for the
> same time period? We could have been up to 1.6 million articles? Who
> knows.
>
> Steve

Have you ever considered the possibility that there haven't been any
more Seigenthalers is because the MSM is jaded with that sort of
thing?

And that's a rather cavalier attitude to take about the possibility
that we've shot ourselves in the foot to the tune of thousands and
thousands of articles and possibly editors.

~maru