[WikiEN-l] Anonymous page creation will be reenabled on English Wikipedia.

[RLS]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Numerous discussions with Wikipedians, Foundation leaders, and
> Foundation staff going back for more than a year have generally been
> positive about the idea of re-enabling anonymous page creation.
> 
> In the time since late 2005 the English Wikipedia community has grown
> substantially. The nearly exponential growth rate in articles we
> previously experienced has stopped.  Even if disabling anon page
> creation was beneficial then, there is no current evidence suggesting
> that the change continues to be beneficial.  As such, barring
> complications, anonymous page creation will be re-enabled on English
> Wikipedia on Friday November 9th.
> 
> After a one month period, on December 9th, we will re-evaluate this
> decision using previously established methods (average article
> lifespan, rate of deletion, manual quality classification, random
> samplings of newly created articles, and most importantly, community
> discussion). If there is evidence of harm, anonymous page creation
> will be disabled to collect more data and provide time for discussion.
>  If there is no significant evidence of harm, the issue will be
> evaluated again after six months. Further milestones and actions may
> be proposed at that time.
> 
> Finally the community will have the chance to make an informed
> decision on this subject. It would have been best if that had happened
> initially, but it wasn't possible then.

Out of curiosity, was this discussed or presented to the community at 
large before a decision was made?

--Darkwind