[Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia

[Fabrice Florin]

Hello Richard, John and Parnall, 

Thank you so much for your kind words about Page Curation!

We are delighted that this new tool works well for you. It was created in close collaboration with many editors on the English Wikipedia and other projects, who played an important role in its development. Thank you all for your great insights and generous guidance!

For a quick overview on how Page Curation works, watch this video tour:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Video

To try the tool for yourself, head over to the New Pages Feed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed
(you must be logged in as auto-confirmed editor to review new pages)

After you've had a chance to use it, we invite you to leave suggestions for improvement on our talkpage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Page_Curation

Thanks again to everyone who made this tool possible. It was a true pleasure to collaborate with so many community members.

To be continued soon, I hope ...


Fabrice Florin, Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation Editor Engagement team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement


On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:00 AM, wikimedia-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> 
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:19:00 +0100
> From: Richard Symonds <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia
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> I'm impressed. And it takes rather a lot for that to happen. Great work,
> guys!
> 
> Richard Symonds
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> 
> On 26 September 2012 11:12, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It's %!#?&y nice.
>> 
>> John Vandenberg.
>> sent from Galaxy Note
>> On Sep 26, 2012 4:47 PM, "PARNALL Perry" <parnall.perry at aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is ok
>>> 
>>> 
>>> PARNALL Perry
>>> parnall.perry at aol.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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