Keegan, calling people names isn't helpful here.
We've already had horrible projects to write tons of stubs before, like the
"place" bots. And in those cases, we'd know at least roughly what they
would do and how.
This project is going for 100k articles. There are as of this writing 118
editors signed up. That is, even if we presume 100% participation (which is
generally wildly optimistic), nearly 1000 articles per editor to reach that
goal. If somehow that does happen, there are four judges who would need to
review, if the goal is reached, 25000 articles each. Those are not
realistic numbers.
Add into that financial incentives for being the most prolific, and we're
setting up for a very foreseeable disaster.
I have no problems with editing initiatives focused on underrepresented
areas. But they need to have realistic goals, numbers actually run during
planning, and most importantly, no financial rewards. This project is not a
good idea.
Todd
On Oct 15, 2017 11:53 AM, "Keegan Peterzell" <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Gnangarra
<gnangarra(a)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
Here's another unsolicited thought:
Instead of complaining and writing seemingly sexist screeds about attempts
to broaden the breadth of knowledge within Wikipedia, why don't you help?
I'm sure copyediting, referencing, infoboxes, and all the other general
wiki work will need some assistance. You have years of experience editing
the wikis. Seems like a win/win.
--
~Keegan
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