I don't know that there is a next step. The WMF has clearly indicated they
will not budge on the solution that the high-level Wikipedia community says
is needed. I have qualms myself about the way the community operates at
times but covering ACTRAIL and New Page Patrol at the Signpost felt like an
enormous and egregious slap across the face. I still see and feel the
repercussions of these breaches of trust today.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pete,
Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel.
Pine
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]]
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I hope that's not the feature Philippe meant,
but maybe. For my clients
and students I think it's generally caused more confusion than it's
solved,
> since now they have an additional layer of bureaucracy to navigate
(AFC).
> Is there any data suggesting that's been
a net improvement for new
users?
Pete
On Sep 1, 2014 4:38 PM, "Risker" <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Wasn't the creation of the DRAFT namespace at least in part a response
to
>> concerns raised at ACTRIAL, in particular new, poorly developed
articles
>
showing up in mainspace?
>
> Risker/Anne
>
>
> On 1 September 2014 19:08, Joe Decker <joedecker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This, to the best of my knowledge, represents the entirety of the
WMF's
>> > response to ACTRIAL. To the extent that there was additional
feedback
>> > given, it was not given at
WP:ACTRIAL, nor any other venue I am
aware
>> of.
>> >
>> >
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
>> >
>> > --Joe
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > That's the issue I cited above. You haven't heard more
complaints,
>> > because
>> > > the complaint was pointless the first time and took a massive
effort
> to
> > > produce.
> > >
> > > The underlying issue isn't fixed. We're still drowning in crap and
> spam
> > > from people who never have the slightest intent of editing
helpfully,
> and
> > > those who are newbies who genuinely want to help but need guidance
get
>> > > caught in the crossfire aimed at the vandals and spammers. It is
>> > relatively
>> > > rare that when a genuinely new editor's first edit is a creation,
it
>> is
>> > the
>> > > creation of an appropriate article on a workable subject, and
that's
> >
> normally more by dumb luck than them having actual knowledge that
they
> > > should do it.
> > >
> > > So, consider that a complaint. The proposed fix didn't work, and
most
> > > people at the time didn't
figure it would work, but it was clearly
the
>> > best
>> > > we were going to get.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
>> > > pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org
>> > > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > > On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Todd Allen
<toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > That's contradicted by, among other things, ACTRIAL as
mentioned
> >
above.
> > > > The
> > > > > en.wp community came to a clear consensus for a major change,
and
>> the
>> > > WMF
>> > > > > shrugged and said "Nah, rather not."
>> > > >
>> > > > That's... Not exactly what I remember happening there. What
I
>> remember
>> > > was
>> > > > that a pretty good number (~500) of enwiki community members
came
>> > > together
>> > > > and agreed on a problem, and one plan for how to fix it and
asked
>> the
>> > > WMF
>> > > > to implement it. The WMF evaluated it, and saw a threat to a
basic
> >
> project
> > > > value. WMF then asked "what's the problem you're actually
trying
to
>> > > > solve?", and proposed and built a set of tools to directly
address
> that
> > > > problem without compromising the core value of openness. And it
> seems
> > to
> > > > have worked out pretty well because I haven't heard a ton of
> complaints
> > > > about that problem since.
> > > >
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