One place to find "new articles from unconfirmed users" is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled...
But I also find rich picking at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Empty_pages_for_speedy_deletion And sadly all to often at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nonsense_pages_for_speedy_deletion
I fear some of our taggers see "No-context" as a euphemism for "needs quite a bit of work".
WereSpielChequers
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been writing new stub articles just from those in the past couple of days. It reminds me of how and why I got hooked on writing an encyclopedia.
What would be a good way of advocating these to n00bs? "See this list? Write a coupla paragraphs with a coupla good references and it'll go in."
Suppose I should help process the "new articles from unconfirmed users" queue ... where is that these days?
- d.
2009/12/6 WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com:
One place to find "new articles from unconfirmed users" is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled... But I also find rich picking at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Empty_pages_for_speedy_deletion And sadly all to often at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nonsense_pages_for_speedy_deletion
No, I mean the pages where anons and unconfirmed editors write pages they propose be created. Looks like it's [[WP:AFC]].
- d.
I don't know whether this one is something you'd be interested in, David. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Repetitive...
It looks interesting to me, but I have no technical knowledge, so there could be a problem with it I'm not spotting.
Sarah
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:44, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/12/6 WereSpielChequers werespielchequers@googlemail.com:
One place to find "new articles from unconfirmed users" is
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPages&hidepatrolled...
But I also find rich picking at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Empty_pages_for_speedy_deletion And sadly all to often at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nonsense_pages_for_speedy_deletion
No, I mean the pages where anons and unconfirmed editors write pages they propose be created. Looks like it's [[WP:AFC]].
- d.
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2009/12/6 SlimVirgin slimvirgin@gmail.com:
I don't know whether this one is something you'd be interested in, David. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Repetitive... It looks interesting to me, but I have no technical knowledge, so there could be a problem with it I'm not spotting.
Interesting, and also an example of what something that isn't quite shaped like a Wikipedia article as us regulars know it. So it's interesting as a more general example.
This is where what we think of as "encyclopedic" and what users look up in Wikipedia may differ. I would guess someone got told that was their Internet problem and couldn't find it in Wikipedia, so looked it up and wrote a quick article.
Yep, that'll be my coupla hours' Wikipedia tonight: rescuing articles in the queue ...
- d.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:11, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is where what we think of as "encyclopedic" and what users look up in Wikipedia may differ. I would guess someone got told that was their Internet problem and couldn't find it in Wikipedia, so looked it up and wrote a quick article.
It's the old Wikipedia spirit.
Sarah
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:11 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yep, that'll be my coupla hours' Wikipedia tonight: rescuing articles in the queue ...
Also have a look at the article incubator, where articles that barely fail AfD get shunted.
Steve