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

[Gary Kirk]

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On 26/10/2007, RLS <evendell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?


" If you are aware of a strong factually-grounded reason why this should not
be
done please provide it as soon as possible, either as a response to
this list or emailed to me privately." - this *is* the discussion :)

Jolly good idea I say. Some of our best anonymous editors just don't want
accounts.

--Darkwind
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-- 
Gary Kirk