[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 6/21/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/21/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Have you ever looked at a regular day of submissions at AFC?
> > > Each and every one of them is one more than hasn't been created by an
> > > ignorant newbie
> > > and avoided overworking admins with the need to delete it.
> >
> > It appears to me that at least a large minority of them aren't written
> > by an "ignorant newbie" but by a "smart newbie." Each and every one of
> > them is one more problem that some wikipedian has to deal with. Seems
> > to me like the whole AFC thing has just managed to move the problem to
> > another place. AFC = AFD in reverse.
>
> No, the great thing about AfC is no one has to deal with it at all. If
> we stopped working on AfC, then Wikipedia would simply lose a little
> bit of growth. By contrast, if we stopped working on AfD, then
> Wikipedia would fairly dramatically fill up with total crud.
>
Isn't AfC part of Wikipedia?

Anthony