[WikiEN-l] More fodder for your editcountitis

[Martin Richards]

> Go do [[Special:Newpages]] patrol some time. (Sunday afternoon and
> evening US time are "good" for this.)  MY GOD, THE AVALANCHES OF CRAP!
> I can fully believe we have ~2000 shoot-on-sight new page creations a
> day.

I have been looking at this for a while now, something that is clear is that 
virtually all (as in ~95%) of the deleted articles (especially speedies) are 
from anonymous users, and a lot of which aren't tests, but plain old 
vandalism. I really think we need some kind of "votes for creation" or 
"approved creation" or something, maybe not soon as there are still vast 
quantities of topics we don't cover (see [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Missing 
encyclopedic articles]] for ~150,000 examples), but maybe a in year or so 
from now I dont think we will have much choice.

Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] More fodder for your editcountitis


> Charles Matthews wrote:
>
>>A striking number, i.e. 2000 per day.  More than the amount of honest page
>>creation.  AfD is only around 5% of that.  Presumably there is something
>>behind the four-figure numbers some admins clocked up.  My 20 or so seems
>>strangely inadequate if not.
>
>

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> - d.
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