Thomas Dalton wrote:
One thing which is not fixed: articles towards the end of the AfD day attract much less input than articles at the beginning of the day.
Does anyone have a good idea for fixing that?
Have the "current debates" page, or whatever it's called, contain the last 2 days, rather than the last day. That way you would move only debates at least 24 hours old off the page at midnight UTC, rather than moving all debates (including ones only 5 minutes old).
That's probably the best suggestion so far, either combined with Luna's order reversal or not. The easiest way to implement this is probably simply having the current day's page transclude the previous day's one at the top (or bottom) of the nomination list, and removing that line from the previous page whenever a new page is started.
(We could maybe even wrap that line in <noinclude> tags, as a belt-and-suspenders approach to make sure we don't get huge transclusion chains even if people forget to remove it.)
You can see a similar system in use on my user talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ilmari_Karonen