Returning to the subject of AFC, here's some food for thought from the
October Research newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2015/October>:
"*User interaction with community processes in online communities"* From
the abstract: "We find that articles that are deleted from Wikipedia differ
from those that are not in many significant ways. We also find, however,
that most deleted articles are deleted extremely hastily, often before they
have time to develop. We use our data to create a model that can predict
with high precision whether or not an article will be deleted. ... We
propose to deploy a system utilizing this model on Wikipedia as a set of
decision-support tools to help article creators evaluate and improve their
articles before posting. ... English Wikipedia’s Articles for Creation
provides a protected space for drafting new articles, which are reviewed
against minimum quality guidelines before they are published. We explore
the possibility that this drafting process, which is intended to improve
the success of newcomers, in fact decreases newcomer productivity in
English Wikipedia, and offer recommendations for system designers."
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