[WikiEN-l] AFC needs your help!

Thu Jun 8 22:03:02 UTC 2006

On 6/8/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > What's the difference between the system that exists now and the
> > system that existed before, other than the fact that it's harder to
> > maintain? The proposed pages are still publically visible and
> > editable - in fact they're *more* publically visible. Why aren't the
> > people who were overworked with deleting stuff from the article
> > namespace now overworked with deleting stuff from AFC?
>
> Why bother deleting anything from AfC? my understanding of the process
> was that the AfC for a given day hangs around for a few days to see if
> anyone can find anything redeeming, then the whole lot is flushed down
> the plughole. If we're preserving archives of AfC, then we're probably
> doing somethnig wrong.
>
> Steve

Flushing the archives isn't a particularly good idea, because good
articles *do* get lost in AFC. Now, if we had some mechanism to mark
each day as "Done", then that would be another thing.

~maru