On 11 March 2012 08:33, Charles Matthews <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 11 March 2012 03:37, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > > > The reason we're starting off by seeing > > if we can improve quality and inform newbies with Special:NewPages rather > > than Special:RecentChanges is, firstly, because it's a lot easier to > trial > > there (less stuff going on), and secondly because we'd been led to > believe > > that in the eyes of the community, new pages can be a serious problem. > One > > of the most vocal editors telling us this was an issue was you. > > > > To clarify, it might be a help to state what it is that is apparently > broken that you are trying to fix. If it is the existing low barrier to > article creation by one-and-all, it is worth pointing out that wiki systems > were designed to have such low barriers. > A low barrier to contribution is not a problem. What we are trying to fix is the overwork of patrollers and the fact that new editors go into the article creation process unaware of what to expect and ignorant of policy, which understandably ends up leading to disappointment. This is set out fairly clearly in my initial message, which also linked through to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_Creation_Workflow/Landing_System, which has a full rationale and hypothesis. -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
