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

[Bryan Derksen]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> On 8/22/06, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> Deleted versions can't be relied on, who knows when the deletion
>>> database will be cleared again?
>> That doesn't reflect our current practices.
> 
> Do you know of anyplace I could find out what our current practices are?
> I hunted around a bit and deletion review was the only policy page I
> could find that mentioned the issue one way or another. If it's
> inaccurate I should correct it.
> 
>>> All I ask is a little transparency. There's no reason for any of this to
>>> be kept secret.
>> What do you think is being kept secret.
> 
> In your previous post all you said was "Analysis has been done, results
> will be published." Who's doing the analysis? Is there any indication of
> where and when will the results be published? Finding out anything about
> what's been going on with this "experiment" has been like pulling teeth,
> it's nine months in now and this is the first time I've heard even this
> much.
> 
>> Don't mistake Jimbo's inability to be simultaneously aware of the work
>> of every single participant as an indicator of secrecy.
> 
> It's my own inability to find out any of these details myself that I'm
> more worried about.

I still haven't seen any answers to the questions I posted here and the
thread seems to have moved on from discussing them. Should I assume that
these answers don't actually exist?

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