On 10 March 2012 12:55, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In a way they've already got that through things
like Articles for Creation
(which I would love to see us support better, on the software side. I can't
promise anything, though).
The problem with AFC is that hardly anyone cares to review (me
included). Perhaps it could be streamlined ... but then it's basically
another Special:Newpages queue.
Primarily the idea that a chunk of potential and
attempted editors are
ignorant, rather than malicious; I'd hope we would all agree that this is
the case. Note that we're not deploying this; we're asking for comments on
the implementation itself so we can make it the best (or, if you disagree
with the premise, least-bad) tool it can be. Once it's developed, it'll be
deployed in a bucketed format for say, 5 percent of newbies We can find
out if the hypothesis is accurate without overworking people.
Sounds workably plausible.
- d.