On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:06 PM, zdzislaw <zdzislaw.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

In the view mode of the yellow Pages (sic! :-)), we can add the "Thin (but long) Green Button" (TGB) described: "I read and carefully compared the contents with the scan - there's no mistakes." :) Users who "DO read our books" (and they do not want / do not have time / skills... to edit) click on this button and simply go to the view mode of the next page. Such a click would be counted (extra field in the mw database), but did not cause an immediate change of the Page status. If for a given page will be counted three??, four?? such clicks (this amount would have to have the ability to configure for each WS - community could determine their "quality threshold" - for "one click" it will became into BGB), then the Page status would change automatically from "yellow" to "green". Of course, it would be also configurable, to whom show TGB (ip, registered, autopotrolled ...).
Such a solution would have be implemented directly in the proofread extension.
"TGB" would allow adjustment of the level of "quality" and would be acceptable by most the community. If it is true that " a lot of users DO read our books," even for 5-4 "clicks" the status would change quickly.

I do like this approach, and I'd love to see some tests.

I really believe that is good to do tests and experiments, as we are sometimes convinced by things that are not really proven.

A 3 step validation passage as you suggest could maybe be easy enough for new users and casual readers, and we could gain some validations we could not have had otherwise.

I also would like to repeat my question about the Visual Editor: are we close tho that or nobody is working on it?

Aubrey

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