James,
Pine suggested you might be able to fill in some of the gaps here. I am not tied to any given format, but what I'm looking for is the connective tissue between things like ACTRIAL, AFC and its increased use, Page Curation, the Draft: namespace, etc.
Reading through the associated pages on wiki, it appears (most specifically from a couple comments from Steven Walling) that there was a strategic framework at the WMF that tied this stuff together. But after spending 45 minutes or so browsing wiki discussions and feature pages, I didn't feel I was getting any closer to seeing what it was/is.
Can you help? Pete
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel.
Thanks Pine. That's unfortunate, but maybe there is somebody (maybe Fabrice?) who can shed some light on the general thinking in the software development in this area. There have been several closely related things -- Article Creation Wizard, Draft: namespace, New Page Patrol software... -- and I see many references to an overall plan, but I've had difficulty finding a summary of that plan.
In the meantime, I've been trying to put the pieces together myself, and have gotten some good assistance from Nemo Bis and Aaron Halfaker -- see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_article_creation#Cut...
At this point, in addition to clarification from Philippe about which part he was referring to, the main thing I'm hoping to accomplish is basically a timeline of milestones, more or less like this (I have somewhat made up the data below for the sake of illustrating the format):
- January 1, 2004: AFC process created. [[Wikilink to tool]] [diff or
mailing list for decision-making process]
- February 1, 2011: RfC on English Wikipedia calls for new procedure
[[wikilink to RfC]] [Bugzilla link for request]
- June 1, 2011: Articles for Creation wizard launched [[Wikilink]]
[discussion link] with these impacts on user experience: ** Impact 1 ** Impact 2 ** Impact 3... ...and so on.
Who at WMF would be best able to fill in the gaps in such a list? Or does the list already exist in a strategy document somewhere? I haven't been able to find it yet, but I'm still looking.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]