During the last strategy plan, we struggled a lot with article quality. Specifically, we struggled with how to MEASURE article quality... we don't have a strong metric for it or a tool to do it. AFT actually played with that a little bit, as well as it's attempt to engage and convert readers into editors.... but I haven't yet seen anything that measures article quality very well.
I'd very much like to see that change. I had actually hoped, as we finished up that strategy, that there would be such a tool by this point.
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:13 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.comwrote:
The "more and more" rules is also a concern i experience when discussing with newbies, but also with more experienced contributors. My main concern is that the terms of use are reflecting US law and English speaking countries worries. In this light they should be as slim as necessary for fulfilling legal requirements. Everything else should imo go to volunteers driven rules in the respective language editions.
Rupert Am 25.03.2014 17:06 schrieb "Anders Wennersten" <mail@anderswennersten.se
:
The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) and it is up
to
the Board will review the community comments. And with almost 5,000 edits in the discussion - with more than 2,000 editors and 320,000 words in various languages and with very different opinions on the subject, it
will
be a challenge for the Board to come to a common standpoint if it as all
is
possible
Stephen LePorte writes: /The !vote is one strong indicator of the importance of addressing this topic/, in which I fully agree
I would like suggest that the issue of paid editors should become one
area
to look when we start the work with the next version of our strategy plan
In our last strategy it stated "more editors" which in reality became about the same number but where a few became semi-professional who make
an
increasing percentage of all edits. And I believe we should instead of "more editors" had stated "more, better articles with higher quality" and then been more open to means to reach that goal (where more editors could had been one mean)
In the same way I would like something like "more, better articles with higher quality" to be a goal for next five year strategy plan and where paid edits could be one mean to reach that goal, but which then need to
be
supported with proper guidelines recommendations etc.
Personally I am a bit concerned that we introduce more and more elaborate rules for qualified editing at the same time the base technique is
getting
more complicated (wikidata is great but it puts higher demand on skill
for
editors). I do not see that this trend necessary means higher treshhold
for
new beginner, as other tools like visual editors make it easier to start. But I do beleive the treshhold to become a qualified a
"semi-professional
editor" IS becoming higher. And perhaps the receipt for last five years - more semiprofessional - is not a viable option for next five years
Anders
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