For those not on internal, just a heads up. I'll send a copy of the page later after some more eyeballs have looked over it.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org Date: Apr 23, 2007 9:40 AM Subject: quality.wikipedia.org draft To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" internal-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I've put up a draft for a page which I think we ought to launch with much fanfare at quality.wikipedia.org soon:
http://internal.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quality.wikipedia.org
In this, I implicitly propose the creation of a "quality assurance fund" people could donate to. This would be the first example of a restricted fundraising campaign; I hereby invite feedback about it. I think we should budget for quality tech, generally, so I do not think that having a restricted fund for it would pose any issues. Implementation-wise, it could perhaps be done using a filter on donation comments, at least for PayPal.
Another implicit assumption is that we will refactor all the quality-related pages on Meta into a nice newbie-friendly overview; I welcome anyone to take the lead on this.
Feel free to edit the page. I think it ought to be more visually appealing as well, perhaps with a photo (Jimmy or Florence).
In terms of "What you can do" steps, I still think it would be pretty cool to provide a simple method for experts and other readers to submit quality reviews of Wikipedia articles, with a radiobutton ( ) submit review publicly ( ) submit review privately where the private submissions would go into OTRS, and the public ones onto the talk page. Doesn't seem too hard to do, and might get us useful feedback.
-- Peace & Love, Erik
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