On Tuesday 02 December 2008 21:52:37 George Herbert wrote: > Level two is more conceptual. Does a person who wants to create a > page understand all that a "well done" page in Wikipedia should have? > Can they explain what the idea is, and why it should have a page? Do > they understand references and think about how to provide some? > > To be really useful, a toolset that structures a "create page" button > response should address some or all of these questions. > > Have the output be not just a page, but a series of pages, which > provide short inputs and do some useful things with them. Perhaps, > for example: > > "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It exists to collect useful general > information about all topics and make it freely available. But there > are lots of things which don't belong in encyclopedias. Are you sure > that the topic / article you want to create is really an encyclopedia > article? Is it a word definition instead (link to Wictionary), or an > image of some sort (link to commons), or (fill in some more). If your > idea for an article is really an encyclopedia entry, click 'Yes' below > to continue." > > "Can you explain what this page / article will be about? What's the > topic? Where did you learn about it? Please fill in the text box > below with your idea of what this new article is about. This will be > posted on the article's talk page to explain the purpose of the > article." > > "Wikipedia relies on outside references to verify information people > post here. Can you provide the titles of some books or magazine > articles, website URLs, or other sources which confirm what you are > saying in the new article, in the text box below?" > > "Wikipedia would like to have articles about all important and useful > topics, but some topics (normal people, most small businesses, etc) > just aren't important enough. Is your article something which people > in other states or countries will find interesting and useful? > Wikipedia has some policies on what we recommend as being notable > enough for articles (link to policies). If you think this article > idea is notable enough, please click 'Yes' below to continue." > > "Wikipedia likes to have links from article to article. Are there > other existing articles which you think this new article should > connect to? List them below if you know of any." > > "Wikipedia article start with a short introduction, then more details. > Can you summarize what this article is about in one to three > sentences, to start the article's introduction? Think about it and > then fill in the introduction below if you can. Then click on > 'Continue'." > > "Ok, now let's create the actual article contents.... " (filled in > template article, with introduction section inserted, and slightly > textually processed references and see also sections). > > And the final step drops the article rationale entry into the talk > page as well, on article creation. > > > > Does this process make sense?
tl;dr as I'm afraid most people would say :( _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
