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.