On 11 March 2012 03:37, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
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The reason we're starting off by seeing
if we can improve quality and inform newbies with Special:NewPages rather
than Special:RecentChanges is, firstly, because it's a lot easier to trial
there (less stuff going on), and
On 11 March 2012 08:56, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A low barrier to contribution is not a problem. What we are trying to fix
is the overwork of patrollers and the fact that new editors go into the
article creation process unaware of what to expect and ignorant of policy,
which
Hi Oliver,
Yes my criticism of your requiring new authors of new articles to have a
familiarity with policy and several references was about what you said
you intend this new software to do, not on how close the current prototype
is to achieving that. If your intent is other than you said then
On 11 March 2012 09:30, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote:
On 11 March 2012 08:56, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A low barrier to contribution is not a problem. What we are trying to fix
is the overwork of patrollers and the fact that new editors go into the
On 11 March 2012 10:36, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Oliver,
Yes my criticism of your requiring new authors of new articles to have a
familiarity with policy and several references was about what you said
you intend this new software to do, not on how close the
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Did someone change the password? Those details aren't working for me.
Oic, you can create your own account on the labs site.
My thoughts:
- The choices use the article wizard, create a draft, create this
article myself
Oic, you can create your own account on the labs site.
My thoughts:
- The choices use the article wizard, create a draft, create this
article myself are a bit confusing. Especially the first two - that's
a really unusual distinction that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd
expect the
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
To clarify, it might be a help to state what it is that is apparently
broken that you are trying to fix. If it is the existing low barrier to
article creation by one-and-all, it is worth pointing out that
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a great point. In addition to Oliver's explanation on-list, do
folks think the descriptions on EN [1][ and MediaWiki.org [[2] are
sufficiently clear?
The former is meant primarily for the community, and
