[WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Charlotte Webb
<charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/30/08, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org> wrote:
>> Secondly there is the issue of google indexing our new pages very
>> quickly. I have heard estimates that new articles are out on google
>> anywhere from 1 hour to 5 hours. We do need to make sure attacks and
>> spam are removed before google indexs them.
>
> If this is truly the root of all urgency we should turn on flaggedrevs.
>
> In the beginning we would want Google to index only an article's last
> stable version (if one exists).
>
> After a certain grace period (to keep known-good content from
> vanishing), we can begin instructing Google to stop indexing articles
> which have no flagged rev and to de-index existing unflagged revs.
>
> While I think this would be the best strategy to avoid the scenarios
> you describe, I don't think it has anything to do with the shelf-life
> of articles tagged for speedy deletion.
>
> Some users like to nuke every {{third-world-topic-stub}} from
> geostationary orbit because it is like a video game to them. Faster
> pussycat, kill, kill, and let no mayfly die of natural causes.
>
> Perhaps some of this energy can be channeled toward other tasks.

Depends. If those efforts are channelled towards difficult stuff, it
could make things worse. The trick is to find something else ongoing,
backlogged, interesting and simple and rewarding and useful (that last
one might be difficult), and directing the efforts towards that.

Carcharoth