Let's call a spade a spade. Raul654 calls himself whatever he calls
himself whilst running FA in en:wp. Great - I'm glad some"one" does
it. But the project requires much much more than just one person's
work. That is the whole point. One person isn't going to manage 100K
top-notch articles. We are pushing the quality up across the board
and fulfilling Jimbo's challenge at WM06 this year - less about new
articles - more about better articles.
/me would love a Special:RandomFA button as well....with 100K entries
to wheel around.
On 9/21/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21/09/06, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I'd like to second this - don't relax
requirements whatsoever.
Of course, it would make the goal silly to do so. I'm putting
[[WP:100K]] as working to the Featured Article criteria ...
But don't be afraid to reform the process.
The meaning of FA should
not be to be one of 365 produced each year to show up on the front
page.
... but am explicitly not assuming the current FA process.
[[WP:100K]] seems to have a nascent process outlined:
1. Check various sources for better-than-average articles. (FA, GA,
A-rated by a project, collaboration-of-the-week, etc.)
2. Rate these per the FAC. I expect FAs and probably GAs will get an
automatic pass to save effort.
An idea I have for step 2 is: no self-nominations. I am *suspecting*
self-nominations are why FA has to explicitly say "don't take it
personally" - they've set up an environment almost designed to make it
personal.
Now then, for the bilinguals ... does translating FAs from one project
to another sound like something that would arouse your interest at
all?
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- d.
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