On 19/06/2012 20:59, Steven Walling wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Tom Morris<tom(a)tommorris.org> wrote:
>
>> There is currently an enormous backlog at Articles for Creation, of over
>> 700 articles.
>>
>> If you've got some time spare, it'd be great if you could help work on the
>> AfC backlog.
>>
>> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFC
>>
>> Many hands make light wiki-work. ;-)
>>
>
> Thank you for bringing this up Tom.
I'll second this comment. :)
> As a volunteer admin, it looks to me like AFC is horrible mess. Not only
> has there always been a large backlog, but articles that have references
> and would normally pass the CSD barrier at New Page Patrol are routinely
> rejected for trivial reasons.
To be fair, we did manage to get it down to just over 200 only recently.
The problem is of course it went back up fairly quickly. The rate of
reviews is about even with the rate of submissions, which mean a few
days with less review than normal will cause the backlog to shoot way up
and not come back down.
> I think we need to brainstorm ways to either drastically improve AFC's
> ability to review articles in a reasonable time, or discuss not
> highlighting it so prominently to authors of new articles. People who
> actively seek input from other editors before publishing articles in
> mainspace are our most promising new editors, and we're doing them a grave
> disservice right now.
This is a permanent issue. On the one hand, we have people who think AFC
acceptance standard is too high, with AFC requiring newbies submitter to
have a better understanding of WP:MOS and various rules than we would in
mainspace. OTOH, we have people who thinks article acceptance standard
isn't high enough and that reviewer should consider a hundred and one
thing before accepting an article.
Personally, while I do think AFC is perhaps a little bit stricter than
necessary, and I'm probably guilty as charged myself here, I don't think
the standard should be whether it would survive CSD either. There's a
lot of articles that doesn't meet CSD which would definitely get deleted
via AfD that rightly get rejected.
BTW, the solution to the backlog is not to stop highlighting it to new
authors but to attract more reviewers so that more submissions get reviewed.
KTC
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https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_best_practice_guidelines_for_PR
This was put together in the hope of PR editors not shooting their own
foot off. The idea is to be descriptive, not prescriptive.
Facilitated by WMUK, a fair bit of community input on the talk page.
But it needs more.
Where are good places to advertise it on the wiki? I mentioned it in
passing on VP Policy ...
- d.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18365767
"Microsoft has signed a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add
entries from the reference work to Bing."
KTC
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Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
Hi everyone,
As announced on the Village Pump,[1] the "editor engagement experiments"
team has just launched our first project on English Wikipedia. We've done
some small-scale experiments prior to this,[2] but I wanted to share this
here, since this is our first one modifying the interface in any way.
The basic gist is that for one week starting today, some half of visitors
to a small selection of articles (a little under 3,000) will see a new
timestamp that tells them when the page was last edited. It will show up in
the upper right, aligned with the title and to the left of any icons like
the FA star or protection lock. It also links to the history.
This isn't a huge change, but we hope that by more prominently highlighting
the changing nature of articles, we can show more people what's going on in
the wiki, as well the fact that some articles badly need updating.
Thanks, and please let us know if you see any bugs.
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technica…
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement_Experiments