On 8/17/2012 7:36 AM, 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.
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.
Some may think that the bar at AFC is set too high but this high bar
discourages new users, especially when their submissions stay unreviewed for
weeks at a time. And since editor retention is something we are trying to focus
on, it seems a worthy project since many new users have their first experiences
in AFC. The lack of volunteers in wikiprojects like AFC is not a new thing, so
it's not that volunteers have reduced. I think we need to consider if AFC is
something we still want to have, and if so, how can we improve it?
Steve Zhang
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I've never really seen the point in AfC, beyond companies submitting COI
articles. Can't a user just create the article themselves? Maybe we
should focus on giving the 'confirmed' user right to users who want to
create an article, and that way there won't be this huge AfC backlog.
Also, making it easier for laymen to edit (e.g. with the visual editor)
would be very helpful in this pursuit.
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~~yutsi
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