Anthony wrote:
Where did
Jimbo "decide to restrict editing" and then "called it
becoming more open".
I have no idea where he did it, but one instance would be when
creation of new articles was restricted.
How about we make a deal, Anthony?
If you can find where I said that the restriction on the creation of new
articles was an instance of Wikipedia "becoming more open" then I will
post a retraction publicly on my user talk page and on this mailing list.
And if you can't, then you will apologize to me publicly and leave this
list for a period of one year.
For the record: I have been philosophically committed for a very long
time to thinking about how to solve various problems with *more freedom*
and *more transparency* rather than *more control*. Examples of how
this has been successful would include the innovation of semi-protection
rather than protection, and vandalism flagging rather than
semi-protection (the innovation currently being proposed for test in the
German wikipedia).
And preventing anons from creating new pages was an example of a
restriction that, as far as I am aware, has not been particularly
successful. I think the lesson we should take away from this is: we
should continue to become more open.
--Jimbo