--- Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
I hereby suggest a mechanism for "request management". Each article would have a "Request" (or "task") tab, and there would be a Special:Requests page. Through these, requests of all kind could be handeled (added, listed, removed). Each request would get its own "Request:" page for discussion.
A request would consist of:
- Article name (automatically filled in)
- Request type (chosen from a list)
- Comment/reason/explanation text
- Status (from a list, similar to bugzilla; "open", "solved", "wontfix")
- Other automatically filled-in information (who requested it, time of
request)
Requests would be shown in the sidebar of the page (like "Requests: cleanup, wikify"). Details would be shown of the Special:Request page *for that article*. All requests, sorted and filtered, would be shown on Special:Request (*not* for a specific page).
Optionally, a filter could be applied for the categories an article is in. This would allow me too see all articles in "Biochemitry" that need a cleanup, for example.
Quick, tell me what you think, while I'm in a coding mood ;-)
Magnus
That's a great idea: Wikipedia workflow!
So long as readers can very easily see the workflow status of the article w/o having to access a tab, then Im all for it. In other words ; this system should look the same as what we do now. The only difference would be added software support to make things easier for editors.
-- mav
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