Hoi, Sorry but your alphabet soup makes it hard if not impossible to understand. I do not edit en.wp and that should not be a necessity to understand what is being said. Thanks, GerardM
On 25 March 2016 at 14:13, Stephen Philbrick stephen.w.philbrick@gmail.com wrote:
Improved accuracy is like motherhood and apple pie — I trust no one will be opposed to the goal.
However the initial proposal to achieve that goal needs a fair amount of work.
*Clarify scope* – the page WikiProject_Accuracy is in the English Wikipedia, so implicitly, the initial scope is the English Wikipedia. I note that page has a scope section with no content as yet. However, I think taking on the entire English Wikipedia is biting off too much initially. Projects such as this work best if started as a pilot project. While someone may envision this eventually applying to all languages and treat English as the pilot, there is no way in which a project who scope is over 5 million articles can meaningfully be described as a pilot. Consider a much more limited scope pilot. For example all articles within the purview of wiki project medicine might be a good start, primarily because of the importance of that subject matter and partly because of the strong initiatives of editors in that area.
*Clarify ownership* – the seal of approval appears to be granted by a group called the Project Accuracy's Editorial Review Board (PAERB). Are these WMF employees? Editors who meet some criteria? Who establishes the criteria?
*Clarify mechanics* – unless there is a fundamental change to the way Wikipedia works, it will be meaningless to slap a seal of approval on any particular article, as that article could change literally seconds later. I see two possible options although there may be more. The first and most likely option is that the seal of approval appears on the article itself but is actually a permanent link to a reviewed version. This concept has been discussed by wiki project medicine I believe. A second option is to add the seal to the article but then invoke pending changes protection. It would probably have to be a new level of protection allowing only qualified editors, either members of the PAERB, or vetted by the PAERB to make changes. The second option will require a whole new level of bureaucracy.
*Eventual scope* – the current Wikiproject Accuracy page suggests that RAAFA is a level beyond GA & FA. I don’t think anyone reasonably expects that all articles in the English Wikipedia will eventually become FA, so that implies that it is unreasonable to assume that all, or even any meaningfully significant proportion of all articles reach the level of RAAFA. Is it intended to limit this to some subset such as vital articles?
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