[WikiEN-l] Article Landing Pages - functional prototype to test and comment on

[David Gerard]

On 10 March 2012 12:55, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> In a way they've already got that through things like Articles for Creation
> (which I would love to see us support better, on the software side. I can't
> promise anything, though).


The problem with AFC is that hardly anyone cares to review (me
included). Perhaps it could be streamlined ... but then it's basically
another Special:Newpages queue.


> Primarily the idea that a chunk of potential and attempted editors are
> ignorant, rather than malicious; I'd hope we would all agree that this is
> the case. Note that we're not deploying this; we're asking for comments on
> the implementation itself so we can make it the best (or, if you disagree
> with the premise, least-bad) tool it can be. Once it's developed, it'll be
> deployed in a bucketed format for say, 5 percent of newbies  We can find
> out if the hypothesis is accurate without overworking people.


Sounds workably plausible.


- d.