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i think it would be helpful if 1 or 2 days before the 21st you remind the Signup's list's talk pages about the upcoming event. maybe start divvying out work in a sandbox area and adjusting the loads as more people throw in, then delivering our 'plates' to us the day-of as well would be great; just make sure to have a 'seconds pot' for those who finish up and want more to eat. ;) JoeSmack Talk 06:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the backlogs?

Although I think I know my way around much of Wikipedia, I don't really know a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff. In the How to participate section, backlogs are mentioned, but not linked. Where can these backlogs be found?
— Asch jr. talk to me 09:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prioritising work

How about producing a priority list of articles, based on (a) how recently they were last accessed (if this information is available) and (b) how recently they were last changed. If an article is frequently viewed, it's a priority to be fixed. If it's rarely modified, any fixes are likely to remain in place long-term.

Also, AWB has a list of typos that it will correct. Would it be possible to scan WP for all errors that AWB will correct, and then to start with those articles (i.e. the most typo-ridden) that would benefit the most from this relatively effortless method of cleanup? Colonies Chris 12:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Designated days and tagging

In view of the Gnome week, would it be ok with everyone if I started clean up tagging articles on random articles, or do you just want to clear the backlog?

Also, might it be an idea to set a daily challenge (copyedit five articles, wikify ten etc.) to give people something to focus on? DevAlt 12:17, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Go ahead and tag. The goal here is to clean up articles, not necessarily to get rid of backlogs. Backlogs are just the measurable goal-oriented aspect. Daily challenges would be great too, and I'll probably give out a barnstar to whoever (legitimately; no rushed jobs or bad work) cleans up the most. Crystallina 17:38, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Vandals

Um...I have a rather..depressing (in my opinion) question. If we decide to "popularize" this Gnome Drive, then more and more editors will be joining us, right? And if we put in "Cleanup for Gnome Week..." in the edit summary box, it'll obviously attract the editors who are the patrolling the Recent changes page. All of these are fine, but did it occur to anyone that if a lot of patrollers are busy cleaning up the articles, won't there be a shortage of patrollers? I mean, if 65% of the Recent changes patrollers have gone cleaning up, then only 35% will be patrolling the Recent changes page. And with everybody literally cleaning up the articles, and so little patrollers, they (the patrollers) will be overloaded. They have a whole lot of pages flooding up the Recent changes page. And any vandal can sneak in and start doing very difficult-to-spot vandalisms during the drive. And the overloaded patrollers might just miss them out. If there are still enough to watch out for the recent changes page, then it'll be all right. But suppose it happened? What then? -Zacharycrimsonwolf 08:26, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you are usually a patroller, I think that you can still be one during Gnome Week. There should be no shortage if everyone does the Gnomish activities they normally do.--Danaman5 15:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I honestly don't foresee this being a problem. If somebody does a lot of patrol, they'll probably continue to do a lot of patrol. Besides, I'm fairly sure some of the vandal-patrolling utilities out there allow you to filter Recent Changes. Crystallina 15:57, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah..well, I took it way more seriously than I thought. Thanks and happy editing! Cheers!! -Zacharycrimsonwolf 11:00, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thats why we got bots.like Martinbot and Anti-vandalbot and Shadowbot there always there :).Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 18:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this necessary?

How much gnoming could you have done instead of writing this page? I think I must be just missing something, but shouldn't you just be doing this all the time instead of signing up to do it for a week? Atropos 20:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Short answer: About as much as you could have done instead of commenting. Long answer: When there's a concerted effort to do something, more gets done. The idea of a team of people working towards a goal is very powerful. And if you have any doubt about my quantity of work outside this project, I invite you to take a look at my contributions. Crystallina 00:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unusual way of clearing backlogs...

I've discovered looking through the backlogs that a lot of people will reference tag rubbish or nonnotable articles instead of prodding them or taking them to AfD. I have taken to prodding five crap articles that I find a day. I prod anything that:

  1. Contains few or no references, so that notability is unclear.
  2. Is only one sentence long.
  3. Contains nothing but markup and very little content.

I never prod anything that someone has clearly put work into, unless it is abominable/really badly written/a hoax. You may find it would reduce the backlogs rather quickly if everyone on gnome patrol didn't hesitate to prod the naff and unhelpful. 62.30.56.116 21:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC) (Dev920 - couldn't resist)[reply]

Anyone have any handy links to the pages with links to disambig, articles needing wikifaction, or anything else that can come in handy for this week? matt91486 05:00, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • A few:

Running tally

Could someone set up a section on the main page where people can add their running totals? (Five articles wikified, 24 categorised, 17 prodded etc.) Once we have an idea of how we're doing we can ask someone arty to knock out some visuals to encourage us. 62.30.56.116 17:49, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that would be advisable. There are about 80 users who had joined this drive, and by the end of it, more would have joined. Too many edits, the page will be very long. Besides, instead of trying to calculate how many edits you've done in total, you can use the extra time to clear up more articles. Cheers!! -Zacharycrimsonwolf 02:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm adding missing entries to {{hndis}} pages. I'm seeing a lot of redlink entries on those pages. I've been leaving the redlinks in, but it occurs to me that it might be better to remove them. Opinions? -- Boracay Bill 03:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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