On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
.. But instead of increased patrolling and speedy deletions, this could be implemented in the Mediawiki software. If a user (logged in or IP address) tries to create a new page, their recent contribution history could be checked, and if any of their five most recently created articles (except redirects) are shorter than, say, 300 bytes, they would simply be unable to create another article.
Or maybe just a warning. Most people act on good faith (Thats why a wikipedia is possible).
Another idea: A big link "Do you want to contribute to the wikipedia?" -- click --> "Here is a list of articles you can help expanding". So these stubs expand to good fun fat wikipedia articles :-)
And If you want a evil solution, here is one:
code a "Category:Recyble-bin", any article on that category with edits old than 31 days, get deleted.