[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How did thishappen (comixpedia??))

[charles matthews]

"David Gerard" wrote

>If bad, what to do about it? Please discuss.

AfD remains the classic raw wiki experience.

AfD is not

- filtered
- mediated
- sorted by topic
- categorised by policy invoked

or indeed really massaged in any way: it's just a daily list. People 
nominate, they add directly to the page.  They want "instant action".  Never 
mind the long list of clean-ups stretching back into the past, they want 
something _off the site_, or their patience will snap, and they want 
attention _now_.

We are told, fairly convincing, that AfD has scaled badly.  Why would it 
scale well?  Essentially nothing has been tried.

Filtering: make a 24 hour wait before nominations go public at AfD, so that 
admins can do speedy deletes and keeps.

Mediated: sort noms with admin sponsors to delete from those which are not 
speedied but have no support either way.

Sort: by relevant WikiProject for example. Nominator's responsibility.  Make 
sorted noms a crisper process.

Categorise: why this nomination?

All this is without Sangerising and having people arguing that other people 
don't know what they're talking about.

Charles