Is not this suggestion a variation on rule by consensus? What about objective standards?
Whatever we agree on (consensus) it must be auditable.
Norman

----- Original Message ----
From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
To: Dan Kindsvater <dank55@gmail.com>; Wikimedia Quality Discussions <wikiquality-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:22:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikiquality-l] "sighted", and another metric

2008/5/14 Dan Kindsvater <dank55@gmail.com>:

>  The most important metric to me and many editors is how many quality
>  articles we're producing.  A major reason for Flagged Versions is that
>  various content experts have told us that this is one thing they need if we
>  want their help.  So, one important metric I'd like to suggest is to survey
>  and count the number of new editors who say that the new feature is a major
>  reason they decided to start participating.


Also: note that Wikinews (en:wn at least) really wants sighted/stable
versions displayed by default so that they will make it into
aggregators, specifically Google News.


- d.

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