[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 7/19/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I think that's one of the worst examples of fancruft I have seen in a
> very long time.  (And, I note, there is no source. :))

You must not be trying hard. :)

A fun technique is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere/Friends&limit=1200&from=0

Whenever I'm feeling too happy I'll run that against buffy the vampire slayer.

Ashame we don't have a mechanism in place that would allow us to batch
up changes to reasonable articles and review them all critically
before making them the front version. ;)