On 9/13/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Then the next layer of recognition is our trusty Good Articles, which at the moment are not quite working as anticipated (1400 articles?). We throw this open. Nominally, anyone can nominate and anyone can approve a GA; we want to emphasise this fact. Get projects to do it. Have ad-hoc committees do it. Have one editor mark some articles as candidates, then go to another and say "Can you look over this list and see what you agree with?". Bingo, much more throughput, much more chance of a good article being recognised as such.
One other way to make this more open is to encourage people to just go through lists of random articles (or hit "random page") and assign *all* of them to some class. I play the "random page" game from time to time, just hit random page a few times, correct some stuff, add some references, add {{fact}} or {{unsourced}}, fight with vandal patrollers who just automatically revert any major change by someone who isn't logged in, etc. I'd be willing to add some sort of class-tagging to the talk page too, though I'd be more willing if it were easier (is there a {{GA-nominee tag}}?).
Anthony