"Today, as an experiment, we will be turning off new pages creation for
anonymous users in the English Wikipedia." - Jimbo Wales announcement
Sounds like a good plan. Deleting crap pages is much more difficult then
crap content in an otherwise worty artucle. It should be logical then that
to creat crap pages you should go to a little more trouble then with crap
content.
The naivety of some people at Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation is really...
something. Why people cannot read the rules? Or verify their spelling? Oh well.
The fact that a significant proportion of not-created entries is redirects due to
wrong spelling or copyvio is a proof that the restriction was wise. As for the rest,
people are posting their content/sources at this page, so others who decide to register
can actually create them.
Celebrating 13 Years of Wikidata: A Sweet Blend of Learning, Community and 
the Open-source Spirit
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This October, Wikimedians around the world gathered to mark Wikidata’s 13th 
anniversary, and our local community with the HCI User Group Nigeria joined 
the...
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To some extent, yes - but I don't think it's too serious. You may want to check my other blog where I elaborate on this further.
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