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

[Stephen Streater]

On 26 Aug 2006, at 11:41, David Gerard wrote:

> On 26/08/06, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> If you stop or significantly slow the creation of new,  
>> inappropriate articles, editors have more time to work on existing  
>> articles.
>
>
> No, volunteers want to do what they want to do. If you stop them doing
> what they want to do, that doesn't mean they'll do what they don't
> want to do.

I agree. But one of the core aims of Wikipedia is to promote free  
content.
By stopping people adding non-free content, some proportion of people
who don't care whether their content is free or not will add free  
content.

It's a conflict between building an encyclopaedia and building a  
respository
of free knowledge.