[Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia

[John Vandenberg]

It's %!#?&y nice.

John Vandenberg.
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On Sep 26, 2012 4:47 PM, "PARNALL Perry" <parnall.perry at aol.com> wrote:

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> PARNALL Perry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabrice Florin <fflorin at wikimedia.org>
> To: wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; wikitech-l <
> wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wed, Sep 26, 2012 6:32 am
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia
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> Hi folks,
>
> I am happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has just launched Page
> Curation, a new suite of tools for reviewing articles on Wikipedia.
>
> Current page patrol tools like Special:NewPages and Twinkle can be hard to
> use
> quickly and accurately, and have led to frustration for some users. Page
> Curation aims to improve that page patrol experience by making it faster
> and
> easier to review new pages, using two integrated tools: the New Pages Feed
> and
> the Curation Toolbar.
>
> Read the Page Curation announcement on our blog:
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/25/page-curation-launch/
>
> To learn more, visit our introduction page:
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Introduction
>
> If you are an experienced editor, please give Page Curation a try:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed
>
> We are also holding IRC office hours on Wednesday, September 26 at 4pm PT
> (23:00
> UTC), during which we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
> Please
> report any issues on our talk page or to our Community Liaison, Oliver
> Keyes
> <okeyes at wikimedia.org>.
>
> A number of patrollers have already started using Page Curation, and we
> hope
> that more curators will adopt this new toolkit over time. A 'release
> version'
> was deployed on the English Wikipedia on September 20, 2012, and we plan
> to make
> it available to other projects in coming weeks.
>
> This feature was created in close collaboration with editors. We would
> like to
> take this opportunity to thank all the community members who patiently
> guided
> our progress over the past few months. This includes folks like
> Athleek123, DGG,
> Dori, Fluffernutter, Logan, The Helpful One, Tom Morris, Utar and
> WereSpielChequers, to name but a few. We are deeply grateful for your
> generous
> contributions to this project!
>
> We designed Page Curation to offer a better experience, by making it
> easier for
> curators to review new pages and by providing more feedback to creators so
> they
> can improve Wikipedia together.
>
> We hope that you will find this new tool useful. Enjoy!
>
>
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager, Editor Engagement Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
> User:Fabrice Florin (WMF)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement
>
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