> Scientist could have repos with full version control, so you could go back and look at their experiments from day one. All their data would be accessible, as well as their statistical analysis, and you could see the evolution of their written paper.

> The repos could start off private, and then opened on the day of publishing, so others couldn't take credit for their work.

Funny you should say that...

I work at the Center for Open Science, and our founder was quoted in the article. One of the major use cases for our primary product (the Open Science Framework) is to facilitate preregistration.

Here's the relevant section of our "Getting Started" page, detailing how preregistration works: https://osf.io/getting-started/#registrations

You can find out more about COS at http://cos.io.