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@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/08/05, Delirium delirium@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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