[WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results
Andrew Turvey
andrewrturvey at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 13 17:43:16 UTC 2009
Non-logged in people cant create new articles.
----- "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: "Carcharoth" <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 17:10:41 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Drafting - was Re: Civility poll results
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Charles
> Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Carcharoth wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:02 PM, FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd be in favor of a "Draft:" namespace, which users could use for drafting
> >>> articles. Content to be non-spidered. That way we can tell a user to see if
> >>> some other user has started work on a draft already.
> >>>
> >>> This would possibly help collaboration, ensure only credible articles get
> >>> mainspaced, yet retain "anyone can edit" and the gradual development of
> >>> stubs without pressure to delete.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's been suggested before. What it needs is someone to drive the idea forward.
> >>
> >>
> > Notice that if you now try to start the page [[dummydummy]], you get
> > offered the chance to draft it at [[Special:MyPage/Dummydummy
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MyPage/Dummydummy&action=edit>]].
> > I'm not entirely clear what the preferred route is from there. But I
> > imagine suggestions for drafting as more systematically encouraged
> > should be grafted onto this use of special pages.
>
> I *think* that is only for people who are logged in.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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