[WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions on nl:wp

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

What is a frivolous article? I personally wouldn't mind if every 
article about a
soap opera disappeared but that doesn't make them frivolous. And 
similar remarks
apply to pretty much every niche subjects. If we have enough verifiable 
material
on a subject then it isn't frivolous. If we don't, then we shouldn't have an
article.

Quoting Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:

> Granted, we're not completed in some areas that we should be, but there
> is a very large signal-to-noise ratio in terms of articles. For every core
> article
> there are 10 frivolous ones.
>
> Perhaps I am wrong about the scalability of quality control to enwiki. I
> don't
> think so though. There is definitely a size difference between NL and EN.
> I'm
> not one to minimize 380k-ish articles, which is a very noble achievement;
> however, there is a noticeable difference between the sizes. A magnitude of
> about 5 1/4 times difference, give or take. That's 5 times as many articles.
> Does enwiki have a force of editors willing to read every single edit to
> every
> single article? Sustainable?
>
> I think not, but that's just my jaded opinion.
>
> Chad h.
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 6:30 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21/11/2007, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >The
>> > simple fact is that
>> > enwiki is /far/ too large to properly make use of any quality control
>> > system, be it patrolled edits
>> > or flaggedrevs.
>>
>>
>> I think you're wrong. nl:wp is smaller, but it's not *that* much smaller.
>>
>>
>> > If only we had 1,000,000 articles again. 2 million is too many, and I
>> for
>> > one think we need to do some
>> > major pruning and sprucing up of our guidelines. Quality, not quantity,
>> is
>> > what we need. I find it hard to
>> > believe we have 2 million articles on 2 million notable subjects. I for
>> one
>> > would like to see the article
>> > count drop *below* 2 million again.
>>
>>
>> I strongly suggest you read [[WP:WIP]] and follow the red link lists
>> at the bottom. en:wp is so far from finished it's ridiculous.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
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