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The integrity of Wikipedia's reputation has to be repaired and maintained through control of its content. This is a major issue and one which will eventually lead to important restructuring of the way Wikipedia handles the fundamental control of newly created articles.
...AfC doesn't have as many issues to deal with from submissions. In particular, many CSD criteria don't apply to AfC submissions. But most of all it has to do with the fact that NPP has to be reactive rather than proactive. In the case of NPP, we have to act in the case of an improper submission, and the action has to be valid, with AfC the opposite is true, action is only taken when the submission is a good one, or else to give feedback (analogous to tagging for NPP). Improper submissions do not need to be rigorously evaluated for CSD criteria etc, because they are clearly not ready for main space. With AfC, except in rare cases such as copyvio or attack pages, you can generally just look at notability (only one section of this flow chart), and the responsibility is on the submitter to demonstrate notability. For NPP the responsibility is on the reviewer to demonstrate a lack of notability, which is more difficult and easier to get wrong.
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A large amount of preparatory work has been done, spread out over the last 5 years. Now is the time to consolidate those efforts and for a dedicated work group to prepare the details for any Requests for Comment (RfC) that will need to be launched for debate by the broader community, to prepare the to do list that has been requested by the WMF for relatively minor tweaks and software repairs that do not require Community consensus, and to make the official requests for any required heavier engineering resulting from consensus.
The graph on the right is drawn from sources in a MediaWiki extension that was created by the Wikimedia Foundation, but the figures are disputed by WMF employees.