[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)

Sat Dec 10 18:01:21 UTC 2005

Effects I expect at the end of the week:

  * Some article polishing.
  * More people practiced in article polishing.
  * A flood of new articles out of userspace. Hopefully better ones.
People will also treat this as "work on those new articles you were
thinking about" week. That's fine too.
  * A consequent flood of AFDs, but hopefully not as much because the
articles will have been worked on for a week!

Thoughts?

- d.

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I think with the exceptions here and elsewhere I think it's worth trying  out for a week to see what happens. We're falling farther and farther  behind with cleanup and it's not impossible that doing this 4-5 times a  year might make a real difference. It might also make cleanup type work more of a core value among editors...