[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

Thu Jun 22 13:12:13 UTC 2006

> > It appears to me that at least a large minority of them aren't written
> > by an "ignorant newbie" but by a "smart newbie." Each and every one of
> > them is one more problem that some wikipedian has to deal with. Seems
> > to me like the whole AFC thing has just managed to move the problem to
> > another place. AFC = AFD in reverse.
>
> No, the great thing about AfC is no one has to deal with it at all. If
> we stopped working on AfC, then Wikipedia would simply lose a little
> bit of growth. By contrast, if we stopped working on AfD, then
> Wikipedia would fairly dramatically fill up with total crud.
>
> By and large, AfC is a lot less work for any given article than AfD
> is. "Bad" AfCs can simply be ignored. "Good" ones take a couple of
> minutes, but at least we end up with a useful, well-formatted article
> out of the deal.

I think you are suffering from the My Perspective is the Only One that
Counts syndrome. Try submitting a few articles to AFC as an anon user
and then tell us how nice it is.

-- 
mvh Björn