[Wikiquality-l] [Wikisource-l] Feedback and beta-testing from non-Wikipedia projects

[thomasV1 at gmx.de]

Flaggedrevs had been designed with Wikipedia in mind.
Writing an encyclopedy article is about confronting multiple 
points of view. During this process, the quality of 
an article might not always improve; the purpose of 
Flaggedrevs is to flag some revisions as "non draft", 
while still allowing users to modify the article.

I do not think that this would be useful for Wikisource. 
A decrease of quality on a wikisource article can be 
agreed upon in a much more objective way. Introducing 
flaggedrevs will likely result on confusion and useless 
complexity.

(I am not even sure if Flaggedrevs will solve the problems 
faced by wikipedia; once the community know what it really 
is about, they might realize technology does not replace 
expertise...)




-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:39:04 -0300
> Von: "Luiz Augusto" <lugusto at gmail.com>
> An: wikiquality-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: wikisource-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Betreff: [Wikisource-l] Feedback and beta-testing from non-Wikipedia projects

> (sorry for my English and for the crossposting)
> 
> I known that the FlaggedRevs extension is under a review stage and their
> development is devoted basically to the needs from the most known
> Wikimedia
> project. This is ok to me, no worries on it. But since more Wikimedia
> projects have users watching the development of this feature, I think that
> only two future official wikis for the public beta testing is
> insufficient.
> 
> Wikisource, for example, have LabeledSectionTransclusion and ProofreadPage
> enabled on all of yours wikis. These extensions may have issues to work
> appropriately with FlaggedRevs. Enabling these two extensions at the same
> wiki devoted to the English Wikipedia beta-testing may generate some
> troubles with the en.wp users that don't known how and why Wikisource have
> these extensions, to exemplify with only one of the possible reactions.
> Not
> enabling these two extensions + FlaggedRevs at someplace may create false
> hopes. And I think that knowing that issues and waiting for someone with
> the
> required skills to fix them when get time to work on it is more proper
> instead of a community (a Wikisource wiki) gaining consensus to request
> FlaggedRevs getting enabled and finding that a new nice feature brokes
> another
> one.
> 
> [[:m:User:555]]

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