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

[Delirium]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>New articles are still important, as you've pointed out... But I've
>seen no evidence that new article creation belongs even on the top 100
>task list for making our encyclopedia not suck.
>  
>
I'd certainly put it in the top 100, even the top 10, although probably 
not the top 3.  When a user looks up an article, the worst possible 
result would be to find a misleading or otherwise incorrect article.  
The second-worst result would be to find no article.  The third-worst 
would be to find a somewhat shoddy but not misleading or wrong article.  
So I'd rank "we don't cover that at all" pretty high on the list of ways 
our coverage of a topic could suck.

I know I'm still frequently annoyed that I have to look elsewhere for 
information in seemingly basic subjects because we don't yet cover 
them.  For example, there are 20+ former prime ministers of Greece on 
which we have no article, and thousands of basic computer science topics.

-Mark