[WikiEN-l] I better shut up (was vfd RFC)

[Phroziac]

If VFD were kept, how about un-inlining the closed vfds, and giving
links to them instead? Would make the CSDs clutter it somewhat less.

On 8/4/05, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/08/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> 
> > Is it significantly worse now, or just scales badly ...
> 
> Some numbers:
> 
> 31/07 - 102
> 30/07 - 121
> 29/07 - 137
> 28/07 - 130
> 27/07 - 130
> 26/07 - 132
> 25/07 - 108
> 
> ie, 860 over a week at the end of July, versus
> 
> 31/01 - 58
> 30/01 - 69
> 29/01 - 76
> 28/01 - 67 (one of which I remember, sigh)
> 27/01 - 65
> 26/01 - 69
> 25/01 - 63
> 
> at the end of January, a mere 468. Numbers don't included cases where
> many pages were listed together (there was one last week with over
> 20!), but I suspect they scale to the rest of VfD - so almost doubling
> in six months?
> 
> It's trickier to get numbers for a year ago, so I won't try it now,
> but I'd guess at maybe 250/week? In a few months, the day-at-a-glance
> VfD page will get to the length it was a year before,
> week-at-a-glance... when it was already straining.
> 
> Leaving aside the inherent problems of the VfD process, there's an
> obvious scaling issue there. The recent WP:CSD expansions will stem
> the tide a bit - a lot of VfDs are "playing safe nominations" of
> speedy candidates anyway, but...
> 
> I have absolutely no idea what to do about it, so I'm glad someone
> seems to have enough suggestions to get a debate going :-)
> 
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> - Andrew Gray
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