Mark Gallagher wrote:
The more recent change, preventing anon users (I
assume) from creating
pages or making edits until they're approved by someone else, is
something the author asserts the German Wikipedia are experimenting
with. However, given that it's been discussed repeatedly here, it's not
unreasonable to assume, as the author does, that if the German trial
goes well, we might adopt it, too.
If it's an experiment, I'd like to see what the analysis of the results
show before implementing it here.
[0] If I get it wrong this time, it's the
BBC's fault.
[1] Much as I like the lower workload this has caused, it might be nice
to new page creation back on and see what happens. We can even call
it an "experiment", if only to see how Bryan Derkson reacts ...
You probably can guess. :)
Seriously, though, I'm still looking for a response on my request for
details when you said "analysis has been done, results will be
published" regarding the initial disabling of anon page creation. Who
did the analysis? Or did you answer in a different thread that I haven't
been reading? I know I'm being a hardass about this, but so far this has
been the only lead I'm aware of indicating that any such analysis might
actually be taking place.