Do note that the UI uses MedaWiki messages, and as such can be shortened
locally with ease.
Maybe I could make an option to disable the specific ratings and bars.
-Aaron Schulz
From: Daniel Arnold <arnomane(a)gmx.de>
Reply-To: Wikimedia Quality Discussions <wikiquality-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Quality Discussions <wikiquality-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikiquality-l] Text of the infobox
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:25:19 +0200
On Friday 06 July 2007 18:49:17 P. Birken wrote:
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]].
I'd make it super short, like in my very first mockups (then also Aarons
design would again work usability wise, if you just have a one liner
without
a green box around and without lots of quality scale bars):
This is the last [[explanation-1|checked]] version. The [[link to current|
current revision]] is usually editable and more up to date ([[Difflink|
diff]]).
This is the last [[explanation-2|approved]] version. The [[link to
current|
current revision]] is usually editable and more up to date ([[Difflink|
diff]]).
(note the small word difference, which is enough as quality level is
clearly
signaled by icon)
The single reasons:
# No user should be given.
An occasional reader does not even know a single Wikipedian and he also
shouldn't. In every place in Wikipedia we urge people to step behind their
work. No author is allowed to sign an article, no author is allowed to own
an
article. This unique Wikipedia feature of the "outside invisible author"
did
als help us a lot in order to reduce our own selfishness and in order to
maintain NPOV. Internally (the regular authors) have enough tools in order
to maintain transparency on quality flagging.
# No date
A date doesn't tell that much alone. An article about "Mars (Planet)" is
rather comprehensive and significat changes are on a very long time
scale. "Paris Hilton" truly will become quickly outdated in a couple of
weeks
(at least for her "fans" that love to watch her life in real time). The
difference to current version alone is a sufficient indicator for the
degree
of "outdated".
#No number of newer versions:
As well a anon user is not interested how many versions are awaiting
review,
as he simply cannot make use of this information. This is only useful for
authors.
So what you can see right at the article page should be only targeted at
our "customers" and not our "workers".
Cheers, Arnomane
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