I interacted with several people at WCI who have never been part of a GA or FA process.
There is a certain thrill in being part of such a process. From waiting for a reviewer to agree to the PR/GA/FA review given the backlog can be months long at times to the actual peer reviews, collaborating with several others including the reviewer and getting things in place is no childs play. It means several hours of hard work with the process itself taking weeks at times. The satisfaction one gets at the end of it makes the whole process worth it.
The bar has now been raised to quite a high level on English Wikipedia and several WP:India GAs have been demoted in the last few years. IMHO we should concentrate on bringing these articles on par with todays GA norms - which will be a relatively easier task given that the article is a former GA. One such example of this being done is the Mumbai article which was demoted and has now reattained GA status.
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:06:18 +0530
From: ashwin.baindur@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Required - articles for Collaboration of the Month Dec 2011
Naveen, I think COTM is not the place where red links can be developed into stubs, start of even B class articles.
The final outcome that we can hope for is that certain articles are :
* Raised to FA/GA quality if not status (or at least)
* Get improved by numerous edits (or at least)
* Get improved due to numerous eye balls.
The articles most likely to succeed are :
* articles in the news
* articles about popular subjects
* articles about topics where large number of editors are interested
* articles about subjects which people feel are important enough to get off their butts and edit
* articles people feel passionate about
That is why I think the waterway articles never took off. Look, even today nobody from WikiProject India - Transportation has converted them into stub or start. Can we ask for that to be done on "operational immediate" basis (fauji lingo for 'urgent') as a start?
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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