Well, I think that the "article editing" project (i.e., VE) has a huge
potential for also resolving a lot of discussion space issues. I don't see
tacking on yet another UI as being a positive for new editor introduction
or retention, and cannot think of another significant site that has two
such wildly divergent interfaces (one very flexible and the other very
rigid in structure), except perhaps in the mobile vs. desktop situation.
I dunno, Marc. There are different expectations about signature, depending
on the target group. We still have people being freaked out that article
histories contain their username or IP (a form of automatic signature), so
I'm not convinced that there's an expectation on the part of new users that
anything they write anywhere will automatically be signed.
Risker/Anne
On 8 September 2014 10:24, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
On 09/08/2014 10:18 AM, Risker wrote:
The most obvious one is automatic signing of
comments, and it is
something that we have technically been able to impose for years; sinebot
didn't come into existence in a vacuum.
I suppose that's a philosophical divergence between us then - that
sinebot even needs to exist to me is demonstration that the system is
broken.
You say that discussion isn't all that much harder than editing content.
Even if I agreed with that (and I do not, edit conflicts in articles
are much rarer than on talk pages - and usually easier to sort out),
that's not a *good* thing!
Participating in discussion should be much, *much* easier than editing
articles: encouraging newbies to seek help and participate in the
community *before* diving in anything but trivial article edits would be
an immensely powerful retention tool!
(Which isn't to say that editing articles doesn't *also* need a lot of
help - but that's a different project).
-- Marc
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