[Textbook-l] quality.wikimedia.org and wikiquality-l launched

[Matthew Benedict]

I look forward to seeing how this works out. I think the choice of something
to be listed as a stable version should be made very carefully, because a
new contributor seeing something listed as "stable" would probably be
lesslikely to offer any sort of improvements, since they would think
the work
was already complete. But then again, seeing something listed as stable
could also be a sign that it hasn't been hurt by vandalism. There would just
have to be an efficient system in place by which people can decide when to
move from one stable version to another, and it would be difficult I think
to determine whether the default view for anons especially but also for
logged in users should be the stable or the unstable view.

Matt

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> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:58:27 +0200
> Subject: [Textbook-l] quality.wikimedia.org and wikiquality-l launched
> [Please translate this announcement into other languages.]
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> Wikipedia's roots in the more conservative Nupedia project are reflected
> by
> many in-depth discussions we've had over the years about quality
> assurance,
> filtering, and labeling.
>
> In her "4 wishes for the year 2007" [1], Wikimedia Foundation Chair
> Florence Devouard also identified "reliability" as a key goal for the
> Wikimedia Foundation. Today we're taking two small steps towards that
> goal:
>
> * the launch of http://quality.wikimedia.org/ as a portal targeting
> readers and volunteers to summarize key information about current
> quality initiatives, combined with
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquality as a more in-depth
> description of our plans,
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> * the opening of wikiquality-l as a mailing list for related discussions:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l
>
> Notably, these pages describe our current plans with regard to the
> "FlaggedRevs" extension, a MediaWiki extension developed by Aaron
> Schulz and Jörg Baach (with financial support from Wikimedia
> Deutschland e.V.) which makes it possible to identify revisions of
> articles that are known to be of a certain quality, and to change the
> default view based on that information.
>
> The public beta of this feature (initially on dummy websites, i.e. not
> production environments) will begin as soon as a security review of
> the current code has been completed (expected later this month). In
> the meantime, please give your feedback on the quality.wikimedia.org
> portal, add translations, and subscribe to wikiquality-l to join
> future discussions about the specifics of any particular initiative.
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> [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/4_wishes_for_year_2007
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> Sincerely,
> Erik Möller
> Board member, Wikimedia Foundation
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