https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #9 from [email protected] 2011-08-04 22:32:51 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > I'm with Brion on this one. I'm also wondering if the workflow we have here is > sufficient and works as well as we think it does; that is, will the people who > are now prohibited from creating a page really submit through the Articles for > Creation process, or will they become discouraged and give up? I think there > needs to be a very clear process for submitting articles and there needs to be > a really good way of measuring the success/failure of such a trial. > > Disallowing anonymous page creation was a trial, without any means to gauge > the > results. While we're at least putting a 6 month cap on this...I really don't > want us to fall down the slippery slope of rejecting more user contributions > and driving more editors away because we never can decide if the trial was a > good idea or not. The specifics and pre-trial statistics have been provided for trial and post-trial comparison and discussion. The trial is to be switched off after a period of 6 months, with en.Wiki reverting to pre-trial usergroup status. Immediately following the revert, 30 days have been allocated for the evaluation and assessment of the trial, during which the gathered data will be compared. In the case of a result favourable to the adoption of the new user policy, the new policy will be implemented as a permanent feature. In the event of results that demonstrate that the trial has not achieved its goal, namely that of greatly reducing the creation of the vast number of inappropriate new pages with minimal loss of retention of potential new users and potential suitable new articles, the project will be abandoned and the trial will not, under he terms of the present consensus, be reconducted. Moreover, it was clearly expressed that any alternative methods for the creation of new pages that were mentioned in the RfC were not, and are not, part of the discussion nor part of the implementation of the trial. Nevertheless, in deference to some suggestions that were made during the RfC, provision has been made to accommodate the possibility of shortening the 4 day/10 edit waiting period by providing three options of quick access to 1. The article wizard, 2. Articles for creation, and 3. automated creation of a new page template similar to the wizard, but in user space. A review and a page move by an established editor would then enable these new articles to go live more quickly. Due to the near total collapse of the New Page Patrol system, this project and its research and discussion, which have culminated in the required consesuses, have been a priority issue since October 2010; A request has been made via Bugzilla to prepare the software implementation of a trial that has been approved by consensus following correct en.Wiki due process. Bugzilla is not the place to attempt either a stalling procedure or attempts to relitigate what has been decided by established process. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
