Hi Pete,
James A. might be able to answer that, or know which project manager to ping.
AFC and related processes are within my scope of concern regarding editor retention, but they're not my expertise. I wish I could help more. Currently, when I'm not dealing with Cascadia Wikimedians budgets and events, my other item of great interest is VisualEditor, which I feel has come a long way. In Cascadia we intend to start to introduce new users to VisualEditor, using some presentation materials that I'm putting together, hopefully for eventual integration into a couple of videos.
Regarding broader editor engagement plans going forward, I would like to see those fleshed out by WMF, and I have that on my list of items to ask Rachel and/or Lila about if no one else does in the next few weeks.
Pine
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Philippe is on vacation, so I'm forwarding this to Rachel.
Thanks Pine. That's unfortunate, but maybe there is somebody (maybe Fabrice?) who can shed some light on the general thinking in the software development in this area. There have been several closely related things -- Article Creation Wizard, Draft: namespace, New Page Patrol software... -- and I see many references to an overall plan, but I've had difficulty finding a summary of that plan.
In the meantime, I've been trying to put the pieces together myself, and have gotten some good assistance from Nemo Bis and Aaron Halfaker -- see here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_article_creation#Cut...
At this point, in addition to clarification from Philippe about which part he was referring to, the main thing I'm hoping to accomplish is basically a timeline of milestones, more or less like this (I have somewhat made up the data below for the sake of illustrating the format):
- January 1, 2004: AFC process created. [[Wikilink to tool]] [diff or
mailing list for decision-making process]
- February 1, 2011: RfC on English Wikipedia calls for new procedure
[[wikilink to RfC]] [Bugzilla link for request]
- June 1, 2011: Articles for Creation wizard launched [[Wikilink]]
[discussion link] with these impacts on user experience: ** Impact 1 ** Impact 2 ** Impact 3... ...and so on.
Who at WMF would be best able to fill in the gaps in such a list? Or does the list already exist in a strategy document somewhere? I haven't been able to find it yet, but I'm still looking.
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