Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24077689-20140509185352/@comment-5643552-20140509214019

Since the WW forum is now the go-to place for reviewing stories, having a team of people who are assigned to review new stories and keep the backlog clean would be helpful. I'm just afraid that too few people would apply for it since it's not technically a user right*, but a responsibility. Hopefully there's enough people who take it seriously enough to volunteer for it anyway. (We could also invite potential reviewers to join the team if need be.) Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: I don't see a real need for this. Any user can go along and leave reviews of pastas behind on the Workshop board. Yeah, but nobody is actually obligated to review stories. If we had just half a dozen people who are, there wouldn't be such a huge backlog of old unreviewed stories. Users can also help out with deletion appeal by previewing the appeals and leaving an "unofficial" response for the admins that do appeal. Here's how deletion appeal works: User contests a deletion; admin goes to their deleted contributions, finds the page they want undeleted, reviews it and decides whether or not to accept it. This requires a) access to Special:DeletedContributions and/or Special:Undelete, and b) the ability to view deleted revisions of deleted pages. In other words, only admins can do deletion appeal.

Speaking of which, deletion appeal has actually been going pretty smoothly nowadays. There's no more backlog and appeals are reviewed on a regular basis. It'd be nice if it could stay that way.

* in that it doesn't come with any additional tools