Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

al Message- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] > On Behalf Of Jonathan Morgan > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2018 4:30 AM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities < > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

Kerry, Did you really mean "not allow" here? IMO we (WMF, researchers, Wikipedians) shouldn't be in the business of creating Yet Another Barrier to newcomer contribution. *Suggesting* that people avoid making their first edit to the article on Donald Trump, etc.--sure, that's a good "teachable

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

On 20 March 2018 at 11:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I can understand your reasoning, but consider who this would impact > things like [...] *how* this would impact... Apologies. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

On 20 March 2018 at 10:09, Kerry Raymond wrote: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding > where I am suggesting that we don't allow new users to edit articles of > higher importance, higher quality, higher readership, or higher >

[Wiki-research-l] Revert data by article importance/quality/readership/watchership/BLP

Do we have any data on frequency of reverts of users (or more particularly new users) based on characteristics of the article being developed? There is a proposal about "in-context help and onboarding" of new users: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding where I am