English Wikipedia limits page creation to registered users

Submitted by rernst on Mon, 12/05/2005 - 2:19pm

As a result of this discussion there is an ongoing experiment about restricting page creation on the English Wikipedia to registered users.

The intent of this is to slow the creation of nonesense pages. Having done a bit of 'new page patrol' in my time, and having spent much time in the VFD section, this should have some interesting results. There is an incredible amount of crap flying around wikipedia: most of it nonsense or vanity pages. Such things detract from the project's image, and cause a useless load on the servers. As the server load is incredibly high, any slowing of a load increase that doesn't contribute to the growth of the wikipedia is a worthwhile one.

Only time will tell.

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