Sure, and from what I hear it helped, but it was no panacea, especially
since it's a solution that still relies on a still-declining editor base.
Not like turning the valves would be, and that's clearly not going to
happen. Hence why I doubt there's much more room for improvement on this
issue. New tech can only do so much to fix the problem.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:01 PM, James Alexander <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pete,
Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel.
Pine
He pops in every once in a while during his break but while he is away
Maggie and I are splitting his work up (and this is, for better or worse,
well before Rachel's time).
On Apr 22, 2015 11:59 PM, "Pete
Forsyth" <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Philippe, can you address what you were talking
about here last fall --
was
> the draft feature, and the way it directed new contributors toward the
> Articles for Creation process, the thing you alluded to, that WMF did
in
> response to ACTRIAL?
>
> If so -- has there been any study of whether its intended outcomes
panned
out? If
not -- could you outline what you meant by "[WMF] proposed and
built a set of tools to directly address that problem without
compromising
the core value of openness"?
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
I do not believe he was talking about the Draft feature, which came later.
I think he was referring to the Page Curation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Curation> tool which I know for a
fact
was created in direct response to ACTRIAL because one of the big complaints
was the difficulty with patrolling new pages. While I wasn't directly
involved it was one of the first software products I remember (either as a
community member or staff member) the Foundation trying to engage closely
with the community throughout it's development to create something that
would work well. I also think it was the first product with a Community
Liaison (who, incidentally, had been the most active page patroller for
multiple years before as a community member).
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