"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