On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After some more thought on the origins of stub articles and a > better overview of the contents of the Swedish Wikipedia, it is > clear that very few individuals are responsible for creating large > numbers of stubs, a few years back. Now, depending on religion > (mergists, deletionists...), these should either be deleted, > improved, merged or put on lists of necessary quality > improvements. Either way, it's a lot of work and it would have > been better to have stopped those invidiuals back then. At least > we want to stop such individuals today, so the same mistake isn't > repeated while the old mess is being cleaned up. > > What we want is to foster a spirit of writing better articles, > improving the one you started, before you start the next one. > > But instead of increased patrolling and speedy deletions, this > could be implemented in the Mediawiki software. If a user (logged > in or IP address) tries to create a new page, their recent > contribution history could be checked, and if any of their five > most recently created articles (except redirects) are shorter > than, say, 300 bytes, they would simply be unable to create > another article. This would be a very soft kind of blocking (as > soon as you have improved your existing article, you can start the > next one), each case being completely an affair between the user > and the software, not involving opinions of individual admins. > > Such an extension (is there an "article creation hook"?) could be > fully parameterized, so each community could decide where to set > the limits (5 recently created articles, 300 bytes), and what > message to show to the user who violates these limits. > > Has this been suggested before? Has it been implemented? Would > it be a really bad idea to suggest this? > > > -- > Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > Actually this sounds like a good idea. but not blocking, Just show a warning to the user saying "The article you are saving aren't rich enough, please enrich it and /link/try again// or you can //save it anyway//." also make things like {{templates}} and interwikis and categories not included in the size. -- --alnokta _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
