On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 16:15, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > In the Community Dept. we've been collaborating with some Wikipedians to > continue one of the research projects from the summer, namely involving the > randomized testing of talk page templates to try and improve them. (If you > watch WP:VPT, then you might've seen our announcements.) > > The great thing about doing randomized testing is that we get a more > unbiased assessment of our experiment. The bad thing is that in order to do > a proper job of crunching these numbers, we need help from people who can > read wiki histories accurately and tell us what's going on. > > This is where you come in. Obviously no one is better primed to analyze > diffs and editing histories than editors, so we're looking for a few (3-4, > but the more the merrier) volunteers to lend us their experience this week. > > I know used the r word (research), which makes it sound not really > important, but this is a live experiment on the projects. If we do this > correctly, then we can do a better job of educating good faith editors, > warning away those who cause damage to the encyclopedia, and keeping > experienced Wikipedians from getting their user pages vandalized by angry > people. ;-) > > The system we've got set up for analyzing these diffs is insanely simple if > you're used to MediaWiki, so let me know either on the list or my talk page > [1] if you might have an hour or two to spare. I'm game, if you still need volunteers. -- Jim Redmond [[User:Jredmond]] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
