Hi,
as per Jimbo's suggestion, I have started a voting page for the various
ways to reform the article count. Please see
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_count_reform
for the details. In short,
March 13th, 20:00 GMT is the deadline for proposals/discussion and the
beginning of the voting phase
March 17th, 20:00 GMT is the end of the voting phase.
The voting system used is average voting, meaning you can assign a "grade"
from 1 to 6 (1 being "very good") to each option; the average is
calculated for each, and the option with the lowest average wins.
I have seeded the page with proposals which I remember from past
discussions, please add your own where appropriate. My current favorite:
20 bytes + stub flagging.
Regards,
Erik