I just saw that the JavaScript wizards at Wikimedia Commons came up with an impressive new tool - if you look at an image description page, you will now see "Nominate for deletion" link in the bottom right corner. If you follow that link and give a deletion reason, everything - the tagging of the image, the listing on the Deletion requests page, and the notification of the uploader - is done automatically using JavaScript.
This is quite impressive. I'd love to see more of this kind of automation enabled by default, at least for users in the "autoconfirmed" group. Think about it:
* Deletion, peer review, featured article status nominations * Speedy deletion with auto-notification to the affected users * updating news pages & portals with important announcements ...
I'm sure there are countless scenarios where this might come in handy. I can see the dangers, but I think the benefits justify some more experiments. Any takers & other examples of similar semi-automated tools?
I think it's amazing, and hope that someone sets to work on it. If I could code anything but an infinite loop, I'd do it m'self.
Philippe ----- Original Message ----- From: Erik Moeller To: English Wikipedia ; wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:47 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Semi-automated AfD nomination script at Commons
I just saw that the JavaScript wizards at Wikimedia Commons came up with an impressive new tool - if you look at an image description page, you will now see "Nominate for deletion" link in the bottom right corner. If you follow that link and give a deletion reason, everything - the tagging of the image, the listing on the Deletion requests page, and the notification of the uploader - is done automatically using JavaScript.
This is quite impressive. I'd love to see more of this kind of automation enabled by default, at least for users in the "autoconfirmed" group. Think about it:
* Deletion, peer review, featured article status nominations * Speedy deletion with auto-notification to the affected users * updating news pages & portals with important announcements ...
I'm sure there are countless scenarios where this might come in handy. I can see the dangers, but I think the benefits justify some more experiments. Any takers & other examples of similar semi-automated tools?
-- Peace & Love, Erik
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On 4/24/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just saw that the JavaScript wizards at Wikimedia Commons came up with an impressive new tool - if you look at an image description page, you will now see "Nominate for deletion" link in the bottom right corner. If you follow that link and give a deletion reason, everything - the tagging of the image, the listing on the Deletion requests page, and the notification of the uploader - is done automatically using JavaScript.
This is quite impressive. I'd love to see more of this kind of automation enabled by default, at least for users in the "autoconfirmed" group. Think about it:
- Deletion, peer review, featured article status nominations
- Speedy deletion with auto-notification to the affected users
- updating news pages & portals with important announcements
...
I'm sure there are countless scenarios where this might come in handy. I can see the dangers, but I think the benefits justify some more experiments. Any takers & other examples of similar semi-automated tools?
-- Peace & Love, Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
There are already user scripts that anyone can add to their monobook.js file that will perform many of the functions you describe. I'm not sure how easy it would be to add this to the default javascript for the entire site though. I would be somewhat wary of giving complete newbies access to one-click deletion nomination though, because it could very easily increase the number of nominations made by people who don't understand the deletion process. At least now they have to read a couple pages of explanation prior to making their nominations.
On 4/25/07, Dycedarg darthvader1219@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/24/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just saw that the JavaScript wizards at Wikimedia Commons came up with an impressive new tool - if you look at an image description page, you will now see "Nominate for deletion" link in the bottom right corner. If you follow that link and give a deletion reason, everything - the tagging of the image, the listing on the Deletion requests page, and the notification of the uploader - is done automatically using JavaScript.
This is quite impressive. I'd love to see more of this kind of automation enabled by default, at least for users in the "autoconfirmed" group. Think about it:
- Deletion, peer review, featured article status nominations
- Speedy deletion with auto-notification to the affected users
- updating news pages & portals with important announcements
...
I'm sure there are countless scenarios where this might come in handy. I can see the dangers, but I think the benefits justify some more experiments. Any takers & other examples of similar semi-automated tools?
-- Peace & Love, Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
There are already user scripts that anyone can add to their monobook.jsfile that will perform many of the functions you describe. I'm not sure how easy it would be to add this to the default javascript for the entire site though. I would be somewhat wary of giving complete newbies access to one-click deletion nomination though, because it could very easily increase the number of nominations made by people who don't understand the deletion process. At least now they have to read a couple pages of explanation prior to making their nominations.
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Dycedarg
Yes, we already have such scripts, but they're not always effective. The earliest AFD nomination script I used failed to list nominations on the days AFD listings. That said, we have such tools for deletion, but RFA and FxC generally lack such tools.
Mgm