Jorgenev reporting in. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Jim Redmond <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
