On 11 March 2012 03:37, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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The reason we're starting off by seeing
if we can improve quality and inform newbies with Special:NewPages rather
than Special:RecentChanges is, firstly, because it's a lot easier to trial
there (less stuff going on), and secondly because we'd been led to believe
that in the eyes of the community, new pages can be a serious problem. One
of the most vocal editors telling us this was an issue was you.
To clarify, it might be a help to state what it is that is apparently
broken that
you are trying to fix. If it is the existing low barrier to
article creation by one-and-all, it is worth pointing out that wiki systems
were designed to have such low barriers. If it is grumbling, it is worth
pointing out that grumbling is always with us. (And understanding what it
is you are trying to fix is surely a precondition to assessing any
prototype. No one owes it to you to do that rather than anything else with
their time.)
Charles