https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57315

--- Comment #6 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> 
> > This request originally comes from English Wikipedia, but is definitely
> > relevant to Wikipedia in all languages. It's also potentially useful to 
> > other
> > Wikimedia projects or MediaWiki instances, though requirements like
> > NOINDEXing may be less relevant.
> 
> I beg to differ; this is not relevant for other Wikipedia projects, because
> none of them--except ckb.wikipedia, fa.wikipedia and id.wikipedia--forbid
> non-registered users from creating pages (via '*' => array( 'createpage' =>
> false ),).
> 
> That said, creating a namespace for en.WP should be easy enough.

If you check out the related English Wikipedia RFC, you can see that folks do
not mean for it solely to facilitate page creation by anons. It's intent is as
a tool for everyone, especially new registered users. If our problem was solely
creating drafts by IPs, we definitely wouldn't be building something for
anywhere by enwiki.

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