Tom , I think that's a fair comment - but we have the problem that we can't actually employ anyone to provide that service. An an OTRS volunteer yourself, do you have any suggestions on how we can bring more people into the fold? It doesn't seem to be something we can reasonably incentivise, either. It's something of a quandary!
Stevie
On 15 November 2012 14:10, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.comwrote:
We have two customers, and one "employee" role, I think. And it should go something like (in order of importance):
Reader (Customer) Subject (Customer) Editor (Employee)
Or in other words; because the PR company represents the subject of the article, and we rank so highly on Google etc., they should reasonably expect to receive a good service from us.
Tom
On 15 November 2012 12:32, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 15 November 2012 12:04, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
If you look at the CIPR draft best practice guidelines (which are not of course Wikipedia policy at the moment, but are quite similar to Jimbo's "bright line" rule)
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_best_practice_guidelines_for_PR#A_Step-by...
you'll see that point 3 begins: "If there is no response ...", and
point 4
likewise begins, "If you get no response". The process also requires
people
to look through the contributions history to find and contact editors
who
worked on the article if they don't get a response on the talk page.
That *is* cumbersome, and using a central on-wiki noticeboard would
improve
customer satisfaction.
Andreas, the "customer" on Wikipedia is the reader. And forgetting that leads to a confusion of "contact Wikipedia" with "complaints service".
Readers and editors play different roles in the system. We need to keep clear the distinction. (Even if the mechanism for contacting WP could do with tweaking, we still need to be clear that the reader matters.)
Charles
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