[WikiEN-l] Drake Bennett: Wikipedia ten years on

[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are some obvious errors which will be obvious to us all and may
> mislead readers less familiar with the inner politics. For instance
> the response to the Siegenthaler affair includes Jimmy Wales' decision
> to stop anonymous creation of new articles (correct but out of date as
> it was a temporary measure) but doesn't seem to cover the much more
> important policy shift.

What was temporary about it? I haven't tried recently to create an
article as an anonymous, but judging from the continued existence of
WP:AFC, Wales's decision still stands (despite broken faith as to a
study of the effects).

And policy? The writer focused on the right thing - code is law.

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