On 26/10/2007, RLS evendell@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?
--Darkwind
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Anonymou... we can discuss it there, yes?