I love this initiative. I think it's a great way to share insights in the community. I believe the process can be a bit quicker. I published an article in the game design section and it's been in the process for over two weeks. Is this normal?

Right now perception is also important for this initiative.. I'd say critically important because we want to always be active. Members publish on all sorts of odd bursts.. you may see 4-5 new articles that pop up on a Friday and then nothing Monday-Tuesday when everyone is recovering from a long weekend of drinking. ;) For us we try to smooth out the bursts by spreading out publishing. If we get to a point where we are getting a larger backlog each day with this initiative we can start opening up the hose a bit and pushing more out the community for review each day.

Something I would like to see in the editor which is hopefully fairly trivial is catching the annoying Word/Open Office forward and backward quotes and replacing them with the normal quote. I.e. after pasting from Word or Open Office, a string in code which is supposed to be: "MyString", ends up as something like a^MyStringA@ or something wonky. I had a fair number of strings and quotes in my latest submission and catching them all is a serious pain sometimes. The only other consistent problem is the replacement of '\' with HTML escapes within code blocks, there is one in my recent submission which I can't make go away.

I also like the initiative and I think the publishing process is quick enough.

However, I was wondering what will happen to articles, like mine, which are somewhat niche

and do not get that much attention. I guess in the end a decision has to be made, wether the

article will be accepted or not.

You could invite people, that have published in similar areas, to review articles, like

editors of scientific journals do. So basically, if someone accepts a review, he has to fill out

a web form within a given deadline. The form could be as simple as a reject/accept button

and fields for comments to the author/editor.

On the other hand, this is not a scientific journal and maybe such a review process

is not suitable here.

I don't know if anyone is having the same problem... I just tried writting my first article, all was well, until I published it. I can't, no matter what I try, change the date from January 18, 2038. Is it supposed to be this way, or it's a bug? (Tried on Firefox and Chrome, both latest version)

Well, once you publish the article, it shows a small message that "this article was set to be published on future" (or something like that) - instead of making it automatically disappear, put a little bit more text explaining that this is how it's supposed to be, and an "ok" button to make the DIV go away

And BTW:thanks for the reply!

Edit: Another idea for this - what about the articles someone writes being listed on their user control panel (Under 'my content')? Makes it easier to find and edit them, instead of hunting them down on all the other articles. (If there is a faster way to find an article written by yourself, I couldn't find it) Nevermind, I found it under "resources".