https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #61 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2011-09-14 17:56:20 UTC --- (In reply to comment #58) > I just want to make sure my previous comments were not misunderstood: > Improving the editing interface is a good thing; it will allow non-techie > people to contribute. This is a good thing, Thank you, now I can continue assuming good faith and doubting that editors who are against making things easier exist :) > but it does nothing to solve the > problem of editors who are already savvy enough to figure out how to create a > new article, but couldn't care less about WP policies, notability, copyright > issues, spam policies, etc., and aren't serious about contributing > encyclopedic > content. And there is a steady stream of these types of people. > > The proposed trial is an attempt to solve one problem, and your response is to > deflect us to a completely separate problem. This is the source of our > frustration. As I said before I don't really want to get drawn into this discussion, so I'll just drop this little bit: I've glanced over Erik's proposal and it seems to address both issues, simplifying the interface and process while also implementing an incubation namespace/workspace/whatever where new articles that are submitted by inexperienced users or that don't match certain criteria can be improved upon, reviewed, and admitted to the main namespace (or rejected and left to rot). So Erik's proposal still addresses the original problem. I also don't believe the problems are completely separate (some bad new articles, not the flat-out garbage ones but the not-quite-good-enough ones, are probably the way the are because people can't figure out how to write them properly), but that's hardly important enough to argue about right now. -- 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
