On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
PS: I agree with Nemo and bawolff that the current wording of "Last edited by..." highlights the elements that are perhaps less relevant. Still, the purpose of that object is correct (telling to the readers that such articles have been created by people like them). Have other text alternatives been considered? What about something like "Created by NN volunteers or more".
Agreed.
In the discussion about this last year,[1] I suggested:
"I think the strapline could be usefully tweaked, to indicate that: "[dozens/hundreds/two] editors have worked on this article over its lifetime" - This would provide useful context for understanding articles-in-general, and also the individual-article being looked at. (i.e. I could see and think "it's only been edited by 1 person! Suspicion!").
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Based on all the above, I would tentatively suggest changing the strapline to instead say something like:
"Last edited 10 months ago, by one of 245 editors"
and then on wikis that use an article-assessment system (ie. some Wikipedias, but not many), it could add that info:
"Last edited 10 months ago, by one of 3 editors. Stub-class quality."
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