"David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote in message news:fbad4e140908210704u76f71a4fid58ea2ed952f991d@mail.gmail.com...
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/8/20 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com:
I notice the test wiki has the categories "Usefulness", "Presentation", and "Neutrality", while the extension documentation uses four example categories, "Reliability", "Completeness", "NPOV", and "Presentation". I hope something more specific than "Usefulness" is what gets deployed on en-wiki.
I agree. The only appropriate response to "How useful is this article?" is "Useful for what?".
For the now-largely-abandoned article validation feature, here's a suggested list: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/En_validation_topics#Consolidated_plan
The list there is:
Overall quality Neutral Point Of View Factual accuracy Quality of references Completeness/conciseness Quality of lead section Images and illustrations Grammar, spelling, word choice, wikification and layout What were you looking for? Did you find what you were looking for? Is this the article you expected at this title? How relevant is the topic to a general encyclopedia?
Obviously, that would be just a bit of a wall of text and probably not all of those should be deployed in the first instance :-)
The whole thing, methinks would be on a RATE tab. "What were you looking for?" is a search box with your current search in it. I do not think anybody asks all of those questions unless they contribute. If they answer in the positive, then maybe a template should disappear. If they answer in the negative, then maybe it should appear. Of course, if they edit, that might be a quick way of learning which templates apply, so the user could place the template closer to where it belongs in an article, or just follow links in the template to directions on making improvements. Questions like that should normally offer only a preview of the article, an edit window, and once confirmed, a save button. In some languages, save buttons are not activated until a user has done the preview.