Very excited about the launch of drafts, congrats on the deployment.
For some reason indexing of new drafts in the internal search seems to be lagging (while
new pages created in the main namespace show up almost immediately), any thoughts on why
this would happen?
Dario
On Dec 17, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey all,
Today we deployed a new feature to English Wikipedia -- a Draft namespace.[1] (For those
not familiar, namespaces on our wiki are how we separate types of pages, like articles
versus discussion pages.)
There isn't anything technically that exciting about this new namespace yet. One key
feature is that it is not indexed, however, meaning drafts are hidden from readers using
most search engines.
However, we think this idea show a lot of promise. In the future, we plan to experiment
with additional software support for this namespace, providing tools to help create,
review, and publish drafts with minimal headache. If encouraging new users to create their
first articles in draft mode first really improves their retention and overall experience
on Wikipedia, we do plan on rolling this out beyond English.
You can learn more about our evolving ideas on mediawiki.org,[2] and help answer open
questions we've put to community members on Wikipedia talk:Drafts on English
Wikipedia. Please participate!
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Draft_namespace
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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