https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67082
Pete F <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID |--- --- Comment #4 from Pete F <[email protected]> --- I am glad to see there are some technical issues being surfaced, and I like Bartosz's suggestion, that the tool could be more closely tailored to discussing only the rights the user has. However, I think the bigger issue here is in the way that information is conveyed, rather than the factual accuracy of the information. There are many little issues, that add up to something that's confusing and off-putting to a less technical end-user. I will quote the message's text, with commentary, below: > Hi Martha, > Widar would like to do the following actions on your behalf on > www.wikidata.org: Two problems: 1. Martha has at this point never heard the name "Widar" before, and will probably never hear it again. The reference to "Widar" is not helpful. Is this a person? A web site? An organization? How would she know, and why should she care what Widar wants? 2. "would like to" is a strange way to put it. The person who has a desire here is Martha: she wants to play the Wikidata Game. If there are conditions that must be met, that's what she needs to know; not what some abstract entity "wants." Now she is wondering about machine sentience and artificial intelligence, when all she wanted to do was try out a web game! > * Perform high volume activity > high volume editing I'm not sure I even know what this is referring to. Presumably, some kind of restriction on edits-per-hour is being lifted. I didn't even know such a restriction existed. As an end user, why should Martha care? Why does she even need to know this? How is the information helping her achieve her goal, or how would not knowing harm her? > * Interact with pages > Edit existing pages; Create, edit, and move pages What is a "page"? Is this referring to Wikidata or Wikipedia? Perhaps this could simply say "Make changes to the Wikidata.org web site"? > * Perform administrative actions > Rollback changes to pages; Delete pages, revisions, and log entries I think Bartosz has a good suggestion here: if possible, it would be nice if this item could simply be removed for non-administrators. "Rollback" might be a right that a non-admin has, but in many cases she will not even know what "rollback" means. As an admin, I've granted this right to people without discussing it much, and I've seen other admins do this as well. So if there's a way to avoid the jargon "rollback" and instead describe what will actually be done, that would be ideal. > Privacy Policy I'm not sure why the Privacy Policy is mentioned at all. Whose policy is it? Wikimedia's? Widar's? And why is it relevant? If this is a mere formality, maybe it could be eliminated, or maybe it could be made smaller/lighter grey/moved below the buttons or otherwise de-emphasized. -- 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
