[WikiEN-l] Articles for Creation broken

[Katie Chan]

On 19/08/2012 03:13, Steven Zhang wrote:
> On 17/08/2012, at 11:06 PM, Katie Chan <ktc at ktchan.info> wrote:
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>> On 17/08/2012 12:36, Steven Zhang wrote:
>>> So, I had a look at articles for creation today, and there was nearly 1,000 pending article submissions. Articles for creation has changed a lot since 2008 - it was of a similar structure to XFD - all submissions for a particular day were on one page, and people could come along and approve or reject based in certain criteria.
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>> I can't remember the number off the top of my head, but the number of submissions per day back then and the number of submission now is on a totally different order. The solution is to get more experienced editors reviewing submissions.
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> 	The solution indeed would be to get more people participating, there's no doubt in that, but with over 1000 pending submissions (not declined, pending) we need to think about what else we can do to fix this.

It'd down to 370 at the moment, which is consider normal even if it's 
still a bit high for my liking.

>>> I think that system worked well. True, we have a lot more article creations, but I think it gave more visibility than the current system where everything is subpaged.
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>> I agree to that to an extent but one major advantage with the current subpage system is the retention of page history when an accepted submission is moved to mainspace compare to previously where the reviewing editor start a new page and manually copy and paste the submission over.
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> 	Perhaps we could restructure things so it's like AFD - in a daily log, everything subpaged but all new submissions in one single page per day - then we can check each day off once it's done. This worked in the past, I think it would work now.
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Sounds good, propose it at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for 
creation]]?

KTC

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