FWIW there were sessions at Wikimania about concurrent editing. I think there is community support for the concept. If it helps us retain good faith new editors then that is another good reason to press foward on this subject. Perhaps James Forrester can provide an update on the outlook for concurrent editing capability.
Pine On Sep 25, 2014 10:17 PM, "Luca de Alfaro" luca@dealfaro.com wrote:
This last message of yours Jonathan is very insightful and true. I wonder how it would be possible to set up some kind of controlled study on how different edit capabilities lead to different engagements. One could always set up controlled mirrors of the Wikipedia for a small set of pages on a coherent topic, and perhaps measure the difference in engagement? Do you think that there is a way to do this?
There are also pages that are very different. The rapidly evolving page on a current event requires rapid communication of edits. Instead, a novice that edits a page on a topic with little traffic is best left alone (no tweaking that causes edit conflicts) until she/he is done.
Luca
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:13 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
We have had endless discussions about this in the new page patrol community. Basically there is a divide between those who think it important to communicate with people as quickly as possible so they have a chance to fix things before they log off and people such as myself who think that this drives people away. So before we try to make people more aware that they are dealing with a newbie it would help if we had some neutral independent research that indicated which position is more grounded in reality. Simply making it clearer to patrollers that they are dealing with newbies is solving a non problem, we know the difference between newbies and regulars, we just disagree as to the best way to handle newbies. Investing in software to tell patrollers when they are dealing with newbies is unlikely to help, in fact I would be willing to bet that one of the criticisms will be from patrollers saying that it isn't doing that job as well as they can because it doesn't spot which editors are obviously experienced even if their latest account is not yet auto confirmed.
There is also the issue that some patrollers may not realise how many edit conflicts they cause by templating and categorising articles. Afterall it isn't going to be the templater or categoriser who loses the edit conflict, that is almost guaranteed to be the newbie. Of course this could be resolved by changing the software so that adding a category or template is not treated as conflicting with changing the text.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
On 25 Sep 2014, at 23:23, Luca de Alfaro luca@dealfaro.com wrote:
Re. the edit conflicts happening when a new user is editing:
Can't one add some AJAX to the editor that notifies that one still has the editing window open? Maybe editors could wait to modify work in progress, if they had that indication, and if the content does not seem vandalism?
Luca
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:17 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Aaron, would you please post the script you used to create
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desirable_newcomer_survival_over_tim... ?
I would be happy to modify it to also collect the number of extant non-redirect articles each desirable user created.
Aaron wrote:
... You'll find the hand-coded set of users here http://datasets.wikimedia.org/public-datasets/enwiki/rise-and-decline ... Categories:
- Vandals - Purposefully malicious, out to cause harm
- Bad-faith - Trying to be funny, not here to help or harm
- Good-faith - Trying to be productive, but failing
- Golden - Successfully contributing productively....
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