[Foundation-l] User talk templates

[Steven Walling]

On Mar 22, 2012 8:46 PM, "Cynthia Ashley-Nelson" <cindamuse at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> In Twinkle, we can add a custom Welcome message. Is it possible to create
a
> customized Welcome template that allows the user to insert a personalized
> message to the Twinkle interface? Or even make changes to the existing
> templates that allows users to insert a personal message prior to placing
> on the user's talk page?

Yes, this not difficult at all to add to Twinkle, and if the maintainers of
the gadget are willing I think this should be one of the experiments we
try. The idea of prompting normal handwritten comments as part of the
interface was also suggested in the feedback from our recent test of PROD
and AfD templates in Twinkle.

Steven

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Will Takatoshi <willtakatoshi at gmail.com
>wrote:
>
> > WereSpielChequers wrote:
> >
> > >... our steadily increasing proportion of spammers
> >
> > Where are you seeing that?  I've been monitoring COIBot report
> > contribution numbers and it seems about constant over the years to me.
> >
> > > and the large increase in our proportion of vandals since 2005....
> >
> > The proportion of vandalism peaked in 2007 per
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_statistics Has it
> > been on the rise again?  ClueBot NG's contribution's over time seemed
> > to be relatively low before its recent outage and training reset
> > compared to 2010. Counting ClueBot NG contributions per hour makes it
> > seem like they are still lower than 2007 levels, but they start and
> > stop in  bursts so I can't get a good idea of the trend without more
> > work.
> >
> > I want to clarify to John Vandenberg and others that I do approve of
> > the Foundation's very important work on editor retention and
> > recruitment, and on the current initiatives such the Article Feedback
> > Tool which are in many ways quality-focused, but I think additional
> > Foundation efforts on content quality are simply not necessary at
> > least until the recruitment and retention numbers stop declining.
> >
> > -Will
> >
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>
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>
> Cindy Ashley-Nelson
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