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The mockup of "list view" of the New Pages "Triage" queue looks good; certainly superior to the the current version. My only question is how that is going to scale, assuming a list that is 5,000 articles long or whatever the NPP queue is currently. One would think that the "approved" articles will
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Carrite: what you're describing is actually going into the design document that I'm currently writing and hope to publish, either later tonight or tomorrow. We really, truly have been working on this, and want to give people something to chew
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