Wikiquality-l July 2007

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Trust highlighting in Wikipedia articles
by Erik Moeller 28 Jul '07

28 Jul '07

The University of Santa Cruz/California has an interesting demo up that computes author trust based on whether users' edits are kept/improved or reverted. It then highlights passages of the text according to the computed reputation of the author who added them: http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ http://enwiki-trust.cse.ucsc.edu/index.php/Special:Random NB, this is still very experimental, but it seems promising. Luca de Alfaro, who did most of this work, will also be presenting at Wikimania. -- Toward Peace, Love & Progress: Erik DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.

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All features there, thanks!
by P. Birken 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hiho, at this point, I would like to thank everybody for their input and work, especially Jörg and Aaron. And in particular, Aaron, who has continued for months to do most of the work. I believe, most people would at some point just stopped contributing, after months of working on the same topic and done something else. Therefore, thanks Aaron for bringing us here. This thanks has of course a reason, namely that after seeing the new synched Wiki at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3, I realized that from the softwarewise functionality, we are finished, as we now have the functional link from watchlist and recent changes to the flagged revision. This is not as I would have liked (see my description mail, but now that I have seen it: it is something I would go live with. Therefore, what remains is bugfixing, tuning the setting and the user guidance and the GUI. So, see you in three weeks. Cheers, Philipp

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Vacancy
by P. Birken 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hiho, I will be on a conference next week with limited email access and then three weeks on holiday in the baltic states essentially without email access. I had been hoping to start the betatest before this, but well, things always take longer than you think :-) So, see you later, Philipp

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Text of the infobox
by P. Birken 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Hiho, I have thought a bit about the text of the infobox and I would like to change two things. First of all, for reviewed revisions, the text should state the name of the reviewer, to enhance transparency. And then, I consider the text a tad long and therefore, a bit confusing to the reader. Maybe we could shorten it to the essence. In the german setting, this would look like: This is the latest quality revision, approved by [[User:Reviewer]] on 24 June 2007. The current revision is usually editable and more up to date. There are 0 revisions [[Difflink|awaiting review]]. Respectively: This is the latest sighted version. The latest quality revision of this page was approved by [[User:Reviewer]] on 24 June 2007. The current revision is usually editable and more up to date. There are 3 revisions [[Difflink|awaiting sighting]]. What do you think? Bye, Philipp

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Description of missing features
by P. Birken 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

Hiho, I think it is at this point useful to describe the missing features a bit more precise. in particular, since I will be on a conference for one week from next sunday on and after that on holiday for three weeks. If anybody here thinks: "Ah, I know how to do that, please just do it." In particular, Jörgs timetable is now such, that, although he is still willing to help andwill be helping from time to time, we cannot rely on him. i) The Watchlist. Behind every article in the watchlist, the appropriate icon should show whether the current version is reviewed, sighted or nothing. If it is nothing, the red minus should show and this should be a link to the last sighted version. Thus, the users can sight articles from their watchlist very easily. ii) Recent changes. Same as above. Here Aaron has already done some stuff, which has not been synched with http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3. iii) The GUI Aarons GUI is working on all skins. The design provided by Jörg does only work on monobook and it is probably more useful for the german version. Currently, it can be seen at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~stable/phase3de/index.php?title=Irrlicht (e.g.). These are the points that are missing: # The GUI should be changeable in mediawiki settings (so that Aarons and Jörgs are both usable). # The box that appears when clicking on an icon should overlap the text, not move it around. # The icon should be placed outside the content box, on same height as the lemma, to the right. # The icon that is should correspond to the type of version the reader is seeing with one difference to the first point name that unsighted is not the red, but a grey minus. # In the box, a description of the levels (the yellow bubbles with descriptions) is not useful in the german setting and should therefore be turned off. As you can see, it is really not much anymore. Bye, Philipp

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Toolserver up again
by P. Birken 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

The toolserver is up again! cheers, Philipp

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