https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #48 from Snottywong <[email protected]> 2011-09-14 05:54:20 UTC --- I know I said I was done responding, but apparently I lied. (In reply to comment #46) > The trial as proposed treats a symptom of the problem (too many bad articles > created), not the actual problem (creating articles is wonky and encourages > bad > article creation). Erik's proposal and Brandons designs actually are aimed at > the CAUSE of the problem. I'm just sayin... if I were you, I would claim that > as a win. Then we disagree on what the actual problem is. Somehow, 3.7 million articles were created using the current "wonky" system, nearly 20,000 of which are GA or better. Do you think that all we need to do to increase the quality of new articles is just punch up the interface a bit? If you really believe that the problem will be solved by adding big red and blue buttons to the article creation page, then I fear that the WMF is completely out of touch with the project they've been tasked with managing. The mediawiki workpage suffers from similar delusions, as evidenced by statements such as "Users who wish to create new pages are usually confused. The process of creating a new page is poorly understood, poorly explained, and more often than not is user-hostile." There is no evidence to support these statements, and furthermore, writing an encyclopedia article should necessarily be more difficult than posting your baseball card collection on eBay. In my opinion, it would be a mistake to devote resources to simplifying the editing interface so that more 12-year-olds and uneducated people are encouraged to create new articles. Wikipedia is an academic endeavor, not a social networking site. See [[en:WP:COMPETENCE]]. If you can't figure out how to write a new article, then perhaps you shouldn't. In my opinion (and the opinions of 400-500 other editors), your current efforts are a step in the wrong direction, but I'm just a volunteer editor and it's now clear that our opinions don't make much of a difference. I consider the WMF's response to this entire situation as anything but a win. -- 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
