"logged-in only" editing
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Task force/Wikipedia Quality
Statistics 2: ru:Участник:Шуфель/Статистика (новых статей). 460 articles created in the period 22.12.09-31.12.09 have been monitored. Eventually, 122 articles have been deleted (8 be deletion review, others by speedy deletion process). Here is the summary:
| user class | articles created | % of total | deleted | % of created | flagged | %(flagged/all) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ip | 127 | 28% | 80 | 63% | 29 | 62% |
| not-autoconf | 42 | 9% | 29 | 69% | 8 | 62% |
| user | 106 | 23% | 12 | 11% | 48 | 51% |
| autoeditor | 83 | 18% | 1 | 1% | 81 | 99% |
| editor | 95 | 21% | 0 | 0% | 95 | 100% |
| sysop | 7 | 2% | 0 | 0% | 7 | 100% |
| Total | 460 | 100 % | 122 | 27 % | 268 | 79 % |
The conclusion is that the quality of articles created by unregistered users is virtually the same as the quality of articles created by non-autoconfirmed users.