On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Vicenç <vriullop(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I don't understand how it works. There are three
main categories for
searching random articles to improve. How or where are these categories
defined? They should have a local equivalent or probably a proper local set
up of maintenance categories.
Vicenç
Hi Vicenç,
The experience is described at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians#New_experience
In latest version there is not three categories needed, only one. For now,
we manually set the local category for each wiki, inside the extension. If
the wiki does not have a task category set, we show a more limited version
of the tour.
In the future, we will refer to Wikidata items for the relevant categories (
wikidata.org/wiki/Q823569 and
wikidata.org/wiki/Q9137504). We might also
consider letting a community locally override the task category, though I
would encourage the community to consider creating a category and tagging
pages that have bad spelling/grammar. We've found through testing that
newcomers find this kind of task very easy to do and it gives them a way to
get start with editing that isn't scary.
--
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/