[WikiEN-l] So what does Flagged Revs feel like?

[David Goodman]

The comparisons being made to NPP are interesting, because I see a lot
of the problems NPP does not pick up--the articles which drop off the
bottom of the list after a month and consequently that we no longer
keep track of, the absolutely lousy articles people often pass over
without notice, or with just a tag, when a delete nomination is what
is needed, and of course the over-eager or incorrect nominations for
deletion. I would say of the pages actually checked, about 20% are
being done wrong in one way or another--or perhaps it's 10%. It's
still over a hundred pages a day.

If enWikipedia has only 4,000 active editors, and we don't do better
at this than, we are going to keep up with only a very few articles.
The plan will work , though, for the most watched articles,
fortunately where they are needed, because that's the ones where
people people catch errors now. In other words, as a substitute for
semi-protection for most semi'd pages, not flagging a significant
number of pages addition to them.  It won't do a thing to reduce the
gross vandalism that now gets uncaught for hours. It might provide a
clearer focus on the ones that get caught in a few minutes, and keep
the vandalism off them for those few minutes.  But that's all that can
be expected of it


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Surreptitiousness
> <surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>>
>>> This is another area where the UI can have a real impact: It's
>>> important the it not overstate the level of review that is occurring.
>>> Right now  flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org is calling the levels
>>> "Draft" "Checked" and "quality", but this is under active discussion.
>> Quality might be pushing it then.  I'd suggest "article", but I can't
>> work out how "Checked" fits in. Maybe "Documented" would work better?
>
> Quality is just the default.
>
> "Draft"(unflagged) "Checked" "Reviewed", perhaps?
>
> AFAIK there has been no effort on enwp to figure out what is necessary
> and sufficient for a higher grade of flagging, I think we generally
> know what the lowest grade means: It's stuff that you think probably
> won't be reverted, or some similar low bar.
>
> I think that it may not be useful to worry about the definition of the
> higher grade of flagging until more people are comfortable with how
> the feature works in practice. Baby steps.
>
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