Wikipedia talk:Admin backlog contest
Let me bring up the obvious concern...
Backlogs can not just be blasted through indiscriminately. Making a contest only encourages that, and minus points for invalid actions doesn't work, because that doesn't count the articles made by newbies who do not know how to complain.
...and yes, I KNOW I'm not an admin, but I do look at the backlogs. -Amarkov moo! 04:47, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Rogue
How many points for rogue actions that are later endorsed? John Reaves (talk) 04:53, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- M, of course. -Amarkov moo! 04:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- "M"? Aww, I don't get it. John Reaves (talk) 05:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Q would be funnier, but I don't like ducks. -Amarkov moo! 05:02, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- "M"? Aww, I don't get it. John Reaves (talk) 05:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Link?
Can you link the WT:RFA discussion you mention twice? Curious. Chick Bowen 05:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- I'll try and find it... Grandmasterka 05:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Found it! See NoSeptember's final comment in that discussion. That inspired this. Grandmasterka 05:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you. Indeed, very interesting. Obviously I'm well aware I'm not keeping up my end, but the top-heaviness of that list bears thinking about. Chick Bowen 06:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Found it! See NoSeptember's final comment in that discussion. That inspired this. Grandmasterka 05:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Added One
Getting a speedy deletion overturned is even worse, so I added it :-P ^demon[omg plz] 05:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
First of all...
What about page protections?
- Also, this might have a side effect of Wikipedia:Adminitis. It would be annoying to count the admin log, and even more annoying to count the declined requests that are dealt with, and even more annoying to haggle about DRV cases when the admin says he was judging consensus, etc. etc. So this will never fly in practice. What might fly, though, is to focus efforts on a particular backlog. Thus, image backlogs are a notorious problem, so one week could be "image backlog week", another "uncategorized pages backlog week" (non-admin work that I do, but whatever) and so on. YechielMan 07:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Great ideas. I haven't gotten around to adding page protections, you're welcome to add them yourself if you like. I'll dream up some more tomorrow perhaps... Grandmasterka 07:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Non-admins
I like the idea in principle, though it will be difficult to recall when a block was listed on WP:AIV (esp. while it was backlogged), or when an image was overdue for deletion. Whenever I go through CSD I find that many many items are listed inappropriately and need to be dealt with through other means than admin tools - eg. either article expansion or editing, or adding a {{logo}} or {{screenshot}} tag, or even notifying the uploader. This is stuff that non-admins should be doing, and they should also be rewarded for it, perhaps separately. -- zzuuzz(talk) 12:17, 30 April 2007 (UTC)