On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:10 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
These sub-surface articles would not be googleable let's say, so reader wouldn't get side-tracked into thinking they are "acceptable" in the mainstream,
This already exists with GA/FA ratings. Creating a new public/internal division just adds a new front for controversy.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Noah Salzman noah@salzman.net wrote:
... what does the step-by-step process look like for making this change happen? I imagine there is more than one path: grass roots consensus building vs lobbying The Powers That Be?
The Powers That Be would be needed to change what search engines are told to ignore. (Presumably in robots.txt.)
The grass roots would be needed to ramp up GA/FA effort considerably. EN currently has about 5800 Good Articles (as rated), and 2400 Featured. Current article count is over 2.5 million.
sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GA_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:FA_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
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