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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > Sorry but your alphabet soup makes it hard if not impossible to understand. > I do not edit en.wp and that should not be a necessity to understand what > is being said. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 25 March 2016 at 14:13, Stephen Philbrick <stephen.w.philbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Improved accuracy is like motherhood and apple pie — I trust no one will be >> opposed to the goal. >> >> However the initial proposal to achieve that goal needs a fair amount of >> work. >> >> >> >> *Clarify scope* – the page WikiProject_Accuracy is in the English >> Wikipedia, so implicitly, the initial scope is the English Wikipedia. I >> note that page has a scope section with no content as yet. However, I think >> taking on the entire English Wikipedia is biting off too much initially. >> Projects such as this work best if started as a pilot project. While >> someone may envision this eventually applying to all languages and treat >> English as the pilot, there is no way in which a project who scope is over >> 5 million articles can meaningfully be described as a pilot. Consider a >> much more limited scope pilot. For example all articles within the purview >> of wiki project medicine might be a good start, primarily because of the >> importance of that subject matter and partly because of the strong >> initiatives of editors in that area. >> >> >> *Clarify ownership* – the seal of approval appears to be granted by a group >> called the Project Accuracy's Editorial Review Board (PAERB). Are these WMF >> employees? Editors who meet some criteria? Who establishes the criteria? >> >> >> *Clarify mechanics* – unless there is a fundamental change to the way >> Wikipedia works, it will be meaningless to slap a seal of approval on any >> particular article, as that article could change literally seconds later. I >> see two possible options although there may be more. The first and most >> likely option is that the seal of approval appears on the article itself >> but is actually a permanent link to a reviewed version. This concept has >> been discussed by wiki project medicine I believe. A second option is to >> add the seal to the article but then invoke pending changes protection. It >> would probably have to be a new level of protection allowing only qualified >> editors, either members of the PAERB, or vetted by the PAERB to make >> changes. The second option will require a whole new level of bureaucracy. >> >> >> *Eventual scope* – the current Wikiproject Accuracy page suggests that >> RAAFA >> is a level beyond GA & FA. I don’t think anyone reasonably expects that all >> articles in the English Wikipedia will eventually become FA, so that >> implies that it is unreasonable to assume that all, or even any >> meaningfully significant proportion of all articles reach the level of >> RAAFA. Is it intended to limit this to some subset such as vital articles? >> >> >> >> Sphilbrick >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
