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This is the discussion thread for Why Does It Take So Long?. Post away!
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beezo said:what about making public the list of first-time edits awaiting approval?
beezo said:extending an invite to more editors to watch and approve them?
beezo said:I'm not sure what internal measures are in place to make sure each person who approves an edit is properly vetted, but maybe that could be laxed at a bit? Just a suggestion.
TM2YC said:beezo said:If anybody would like to volunteer for the Academy then kindly make a post in this thread and we'll consider it because maybe there are people we haven't thought of? (How about you beezo? ). Any volunteer needs to be an approved faneditor as a minimum.
Yeah. I'd definitely help out. Two or three a year seems reasonable. Maybe, as a measure for control, each first-timer edit gets scrubbed up by guys like me and then passed along for a final approval by the current gatekeepers? That would at least, in theory, save them the time of having to watch the edit multiple times and go back and forth with the editor. That part could be "outsourced", so to speak.
addiesin said:Great idea for a thread, glad this has stirred up some conversations. The edit approval system is unfortunately not very efficient, but the steps/events that led to it were understandable, and it's far better than no system at all, and definitely better than anything I could come up with personally overnight.
But little by little, it can be improved greatly imo, just by merit of having more participation in the process. And this thread seems to have brought the issue to the attention of the right people. There are two volunteers already, and I'd vouch for both of them. Beezo and Musiced have both been helpful contributors and proven editors for a while now.
Tldr; this thread warms my cold heart.
theryaney said:One thing that people have complained about I think is of the response time to the PM to (no offense) Mr. Cobb. It could take well more than a week some times. Of course, I perfectly understand why as he has told other members and the above reasons from MCP, but would there be any way to quicken that process? How about two people for that job perhaps? Of course there are some downsides in it would confuse some people but it is a possibility.
DominicCobb said:Anyway, those are my excuses. At the end of the day, it really is on me, and I feel bad for the new editors here and how much patience it takes to become an approved fan editor.