Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/08/06, Anthony wrote:
Or to quote Jimmy wales, "we should proceed experimentally to see if this helps or not. If not, we try something else. Calvinball."
I think that that's true atleast.
I think it's smart too and will turn out to be VERY beneficial.
I'm coming at the new article issue from the opposite direction.
Isn't the question how we can leverage the editors so that they can easily remove new, inappropriate articles, rather than trying to stop people from creating new articles?
If you stop or significantly slow the creation of new, inappropriate articles, editors have more time to work on existing articles. I think you'll also find that the majority of new articles that are kept or don't need complete rewriting are by registered users. In fact, I'd bet if you pulled the stats that the same is true of all edits, not just creation.
I'd like to see the experiment applied to all edits. I.e., no anon edits period. Registration is so simple and requires so little info (name and password only) that it serves less as removing anonymity and more as simply forcing vandals to do more in order to vandalize. If anything, it protects naive users from publicly broadcasting their IP to those looking for easy targets.
And that ties back to visibility. Right now, new articles have low visibility. That's really bad.
Perhaps we should insist that all new articles be classified in some way, like the dewey decimal system or something, and allow editors to see new articles in their favourite classification in their watchlists or something.
With the exception of any actual dewey devices, that seems like a useful idea regardless. There appears, however, to already be a page that can be bookmarked and reviewed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Newpages If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges you can see a variety of other utilities already in place.
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