Brainstorming

Brainstorming.... fun.

• Backlog Blitzes and Drives.
• A way to encourage requestors to add some sources to their requests.
• A way to measure the age of submissions (bot based?)

More on the way soon :) Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 19:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Backlog blitzes do not solve the problem if they're having to be run constantly. How do you propose to actually get a number of users interested in and completing the requests? Hey man im josh (talk) 19:46, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

A MassMessage might work out to discuss the revival of the project, but I'm not sure if that's enough to warrant mass messaging. Tails Wx 20:04, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

We could also advertise the project in The Signpost, although I don't know how that would get done. I suppose @Vaticidalprophet would know as he advertised the GA backlog. 123Writer ^talk 20:08, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Well for a start making things like the medical disease article creator for more types of article would make creating them a lot simpler. Zippybonzo | Talk (he|him) 11:25, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Per Discord commentary: I don't think a "let's put high standards on new submissions" framework works especially well to do anything, given 1. people don't read the directions anyway but more importantly 2. RA is old. As mentioned, I'd estimate the median age of listings as late 2000s. The problem (inasmuch as it's a problem) with RA is that people don't write articles off it, not that people are submitting articles to it, because they really don't do that much these days (AfC is strongly advertised, RA is no longer that easy to find). I am...really cautious...about the concept of a backlog drive for 'article creation', which seems like a way to get a lot of stubs and a lot of frustrating AfDs. (re. massmessage, as an MMS I'm pretty sure I'd get the right yanked with prejudice if I sent one; re. Signpost, the GAN backlog notif in the Signpost got very negligible views)

I mentioned that putting WhatamIdoing in the loop here is probably a reasonable idea given her specific combination of institutional memory, notability-related policy experience, and awareness that No, Seriously, Asking People To Read The Directions Will Not Work. I stand by that, though I haven't pinged her here yet given that's a bit...abrupt. There are other editors who could also reasonably be queried for institutional-memory (though I think I might be the only institutional-memory for 2020s-era RA -- god, that's a scary thought). Vaticidalprophet 20:11, 28 August 2023 (UTC)