[WikiEN-l] More fodder for your editcountitis
geni
geniice at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 13:56:27 UTC 2005
On 11/1/05, Martin Richards <Martin at velocitymanager.com> wrote:
> I have been looking at this for a while now, something that is clear is that
> virtually all (as in ~95%) of the deleted articles (especially speedies) are
> from anonymous users, and a lot of which aren't tests, but plain old
> vandalism. I really think we need some kind of "votes for creation" or
> "approved creation" or something, maybe not soon as there are still vast
> quantities of topics we don't cover (see [[Wikipedia:Wikiproject Missing
> encyclopedic articles]] for ~150,000 examples), but maybe a in year or so
> from now I dont think we will have much choice.
>
> Martin
There is a proposal I made somewhere to limit the creation of orphan
articles. From what I recall nocking out rubish on new pages was't a
problem.
Incerdetnly do new pages turn up in Recent changes a fraction before
they turn up on new pages?
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geni
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