Hi Haifeng, The history of the following page might indicate when policies changed around the access levels required to create articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels .
Cheers, Su-Laine > On Aug 11, 2019, at 9:25 AM, Haifeng Zhang <haife...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for providing all these information! > > Was there a major change in article creation policy in early 2007? > > Can anonymous users create new pages before then? > > > Best, > > Haifeng Zhang > ________________________________ > From: Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf > of Su-Laine Brodsky <sulai...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 2:44:24 AM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Question on article creation policy > > Hi Haifeng, > > Re : A more general question is: where to find information about policy > changes, e.g., article creation, in Wikipedia? > > The Wikipedia Signpost usually covers major policy changes like this one > (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost) > > As Kerry pointed out though, more subtle policy changes happen without much > publicity. If changes are contentious enough, they might appear in an RfC or > The Village Pump, so those are some other areas to look. > > Cheers, > Su-Laine > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 9, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Haifeng Zhang <haife...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> >> Dear folks, >> >> I'm checking the Article Creation page >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_creation), and it says: >> >> >> The ability to create articles directly in mainspace is >> restricted<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ACPERM> to autoconfirmed >> users, though non-confirmed users and non-registered users can submit a >> proposed article through the Articles for >> Creation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation> >> process, where it will be reviewed and considered for publication. >> >> >> Anyone knows when the restriction (e.g., registered and auto-confirmed) >> become effective? I tracked the past revisions of the page but found no >> clue. A more general question is: where to find information about policy >> changes, e.g., article creation, in Wikipedia? >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Haifeng >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
