James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Pete,
Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel.
Pine
He pops in every once in a while during his break but while he is away
Maggie and I are splitting his work up (and this is, for better or worse,
well before Rachel's time).
On Apr 22, 2015 11:59 PM, "Pete Forsyth"
<peteforsyth(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Philippe, can you address what you were talking
about here last fall --
was
the draft feature, and the way it directed new
contributors toward the
Articles for Creation process, the thing you alluded to, that WMF did in
response to ACTRIAL?
If so -- has there been any study of whether its intended outcomes panned
out? If not -- could you outline what you meant by "[WMF] proposed and
built a set of tools to directly address that problem without
compromising
the core value of openness"?
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
I do not believe he was talking about the Draft feature, which came later.
I think he was referring to the Page Curation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Curation> tool which I know for a fact
was created in direct response to ACTRIAL because one of the big complaints
was the difficulty with patrolling new pages. While I wasn't directly
involved it was one of the first software products I remember (either as a
community member or staff member) the Foundation trying to engage closely
with the community throughout it's development to create something that
would work well. I also think it was the first product with a Community
Liaison (who, incidentally, had been the most active page patroller for
multiple years before as a community member).