Author: matthew.britton
Description:
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.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement