Hi, all.
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On Jun 19, 2012, at 01:59 PM, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Tom Morris tom@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.
As a volunteer admin, it looks to me like AFC is horrible mess. Not only has there always been a large backlog,
The backlog is routinely at 800+ articles, if anyone is curious. Last time it wasn't marked at a backlog, a couple other editors and I spent about 36 hours off and on cutting the backlog. It was back within two days.
but articles that have references and would normally pass the CSD barrier at New Page Patrol are routinely rejected for trivial reasons.
Again, I see this a lot. Actually, I sometimes override declines after users come into the IRC help channel asking for an explanation. At the very least, a "guide" page should be developed outlining exactly what each decline reason is and how it should be applied.
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.
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Even through all that, I believe AfC needs to exist. It does provide a great service to anon editors who won't create accounts for whatever reason.
I think the biggest thing we should do right now is recruit more editors to AfC. I sound like a broken record, but 3 or 4 of us really can't review articles effectively.
Just my $0.02
Matthew Bowker