[WikiEN-l] Lock new article creation for three months

[Matthew Brown]

On 3/31/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Disabling article creation for anonymous users was supposed to be "just
> an experiment" too and it's still in place over a year later despite no
> analysis ever being done. I can understand people being concerned about
> this experiment winding up the same way.

I'm concerned it will be done simply because people want to try
SOMETHING, without really thinking through the actual effects and
without doing any real testing to make sure it helps.  Meanwhile,
every time I think that some content would work better in a new
article I can't do it.  Every time someone finds a crucial hole in our
coverage they won't be able to add it.  Many of those people won't
come back.

I have a great deal of caution about the urge to 'do something'.
Things done just to 'do something' tend to be poorly thought out and
lacking in results and lacking in research to see if they actually did
any good.

-Matt