On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
I cant believe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_ in_Red/The_World_Contest has got WMF funding, the idea of trying to create 100,000 stub articles on english wikipedia without any thought to how it'll impact on the community.
I find it ironic that a competition is being funded to encourage current contributors to do what we wont accept from new editors. If a new editor was to create an article it wouldnt pass through the Articles for Creation process because its half the size of the minimum set there. Many of the competition articles will just get tagged CSD - A1, A7, A9 even G2
While there is a nice bot that will count the size of the prose, there is no automated process for checking copyright violations, checking for notability and most importantly checking for BLP with the aim of 100,000 the community will years to clean up the mess that is about to be created.
we are 15 days from this disaster commencing
Women in Red has been doing similar projects on a smaller scale for quite a while now. If you think this current one will turn out much worse, at a minimum you should be able to explain how it is different from those.
Anyhow, this contest has been in the works for almost a year and will start in two weeks. The supporting grant was given half a year ago, after public review. If there ever was a time when organizers should have taken vague prophecies of doom into account, it has surely long passed. At this point all you can achieve is creating a hostile atmosphere for the contest (especially if you continue using emotionally charged words like "disaster" or "mess"); please don't push that. If you have constructive advice on how the ill effects you are worried about can be avoided without putting undue burden on the organizers or preventing them to run the contest effectively, focus on that. Otherwise, it's probably best to refrain from discussion for now.