https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55627
--- Comment #9 from Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #7) > There is general consensus that ADMINISTRATOR, ROLLBACKER are helpful but in > the context of profiles they have the unintended side effect of propogating > hierarchy. Also some of the titles are pretty jargon heavy. > > At the same time we do need some insight. Edit stats may not mean a whole lot > to readers, they are just numbers. We need to get to more meaningful insights > which will require some thinking + extra egg effort > It's not about what they mean to readers - that's not the problem here. The problem is that they are a wholly inadequate heuristic inside and outside the editing community. I add 50,000 bytes of text to an article. I solve a really tricky inter-user dispute. I fix a typo. All of these things are one edit, and the use of editcount as a heuristic simultaneously undervalues and overvalues contributors without providing any actual detail as to what they do, how good they are at it, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editcountitis may be a useful read. > > Two quick ideas- > > 1. What if we only called new users out based on their total edit count? > Saying - 'This may be a new user, see if they need help' > See above re 'editcount is not a useful heuristic' > 2. Also we could leave it as is until we introduce the free form field > where users express themselves and then turn this off? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
