[WikiEN-l] 100, 000 FAs as an achievable goal with a plan (was Contest and quality)

[Anthony]

On 9/13/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then the next layer of recognition is our trusty Good Articles, which
> at the moment are not quite working as anticipated (1400 articles?).
> We throw this open. Nominally, anyone can nominate and anyone can
> approve a GA; we want to emphasise this fact. Get projects to do it.
> Have ad-hoc committees do it. Have one editor mark some articles as
> candidates, then go to another and say "Can you look over this list
> and see what you agree with?". Bingo, much more throughput, much more
> chance of a good article being recognised as such.
>
One other way to make this more open is to encourage people to just go
through lists of random articles (or hit "random page") and assign
*all* of them to some class.  I play the "random page" game from time
to time, just hit random page a few times, correct some stuff, add
some references, add {{fact}} or {{unsourced}}, fight with vandal
patrollers who just automatically revert any major change by someone
who isn't logged in, etc.  I'd be willing to add some sort of
class-tagging to the talk page too, though I'd be more willing if it
were easier (is there a {{GA-nominee tag}}?).

Anthony