For everyone interested in this issue, I encourage you to learn more about the new Drafts namespace, which I only discovered recently. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts: "Drafts of new Wikipedia articles may be hosted in the "Draft" namespace. It was created out of concern for the backlog at the Articles for Creation process for new articles." It's not much now aside from a wiki page with a different prefix, but the road map https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespaceon mediawiki.org is intriguing, especially the one-click publish button in the design mockup (page 8https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=File:Design_for_Draft_namespace.pdf&page=8). Nice!

Dominic

On 31 December 2013 02:20, Snyder, Sara SnyderS@si.edu wrote:

I can't begin to tell you how much the black hole of AfC pains me. So many GLAMs have been sucked into it. I believe in the right of new editors to create a stub!

Thanks very much Andy for bringing this to our attention. I expanded the article and added refs myself, and then resubmitted. Hope this will do the trick.

Sara Snyder Webmaster, Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution (202) 633-7987 | www.aaa.si.edu

On 27 December 2013 17:40, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

One of you folk might be interested helping the author of this AfC candidate to get it into a fit state for publication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Bay_Area_...

and then reaching out to the msueum as a potential GLAM partner.

-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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