Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:35 UTC
Anonymous users should be able to create pages in non-talk, non-article namespaces. That is, project, portal, category and so on (not MediaWiki, of course). As far as I am aware, the sole reason for the introduction of the restriction on anonymous page creation was to limit the rate of creation of bad articles. This requires only the main namespace to be cordoned off in this manner. Why would anonymous users want to create non-article, non-talk pages? Well, nominating pages for deletion is bloody annoying, for a start. Have to create the nomination on the talk page and ask someone nicely if they'll move it, which only wastes their time. Ho hum.
(In reply to comment #0) > Anonymous users should be able to create pages in non-talk, non-article > namespaces. That is, project, portal, category and so on (not MediaWiki, of > course). > As far as I am aware, the sole reason for the introduction of the restriction > on anonymous page creation was to limit the rate of creation of bad articles. > This requires only the main namespace to be cordoned off in this manner. > Why would anonymous users want to create non-article, non-talk pages? Well, > nominating pages for deletion is bloody annoying, for a start. Have to create > the nomination on the talk page and ask someone nicely if they'll move it, > which only wastes their time. Ho hum. Are you asking for the technical capability? Or the application to a certain site?
If the technical capability isn't already available, both. If it is, application to any Wikimedia sites where it's currently the case.
Or Gurch, you *could* create an account to do it :)
This would be perfectly doable with a simple Title::userCan() hook, which is probably the best solution for Wikimedia - there's no need to alter the security of existing wikis or introduce another raft of specialist permissions junk into the core configuration.
Changing to FIXED since it seems anonymous page creation in all namespaces is about to be temporarily re-enabled. Will re-open if that decision is later reversed.
Reopening since it seems anonymous page creation in all namespaces won't be re-enabled after all.
Doesn't this need community discussion? Perhaps you can bring this up on WikiEN-l. http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
That'll be a WONTFIX, then.
