[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of active EN wiki admins

[Alan Liefting]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Alan Liefting <aliefting at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>   
>> Tightening up on new page creation would free up a lot of time for
>> admins as well as other editors.  A lot of rubbish articles get created
>> that need to be speedied.
>>
>>
>> Alan Liefting
>>     
>
> {{fact}}.
>
> Jimbo himself admits that banning all anons from page creation didn't
> do much of anything to help.
>
>   
Spending time on New Article Patrol will illustrate my point.  I am 
having trouble finding stats on the article reject rate.  Banning anons 
from page creation did not do much because the bad faith anons started 
creating new accounts and then carried out their bad faith edits.


Alan Liefting