On 4/24/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)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?
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Erik
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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