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On 9 Aug 2004, at 09:09, wikien-l-request(a)Wikipedia.org wrote:
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:09:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Adair <SWAdair(a)computermail.net>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Sub-stub city
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
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Thank you, Jens, for some very good advice.
No thank you! :-)
You're the one who's been doing a lot of hard work in the trenches.
:)
Specialization is needed
for a project this large, but maybe I've been specializing too much.
Maybe what I need is to branch out more, spending less time on New
Pages
and more time elsewhere. Calling all volunteers -- 20 minutes a day,
New Pages wants --> YOU. :-)
I have just had a look at [[Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol]], thinking that
maybe I could dig in for a bit.
Reading through that page, I'm astonished at the "sign up for the new
page patrol in 15-minute chunks" rule.
Is that /really/ required?
It seems seems to be a bar to (patrol duty) empty to me -- it's almost
as if it was "too official" -- any new patrol volunteer (including me)
will want to have a look at one or two new pages at a time and see how
s/he is getting on. Then /maybe/ progress from there. Again, is this
"signing off" really required? It seems to me that a decent flagging
system (as Timwi is implementing) will obsolete that, and I would think
that to be a huge step forward.
Any thoughts on that, anyone?
Frankly I'm amazed by all the thought given to
this topic already, both
pro and con. I agree with Timwi that a minimum byte count will not
rule out someone holding down a key to make a really long test page,
but I do think fewer people would do that. I think a significant
percentage would stop testing when they realized "Oh, wow. It was
actually about to create an article. The only reason it didn't was
that what I wrote was too short." Maybe that's just me being naive,
placing too much trust in the good intentions of others. Maybe not.
I still think a (low) minimum byte count would reduce the overall
maintenance load for new pages without driving away potential new
contributors.
Oh, and I *love* the new Recent Changes Patrol feature Timwi is
developing.
Yep. Good job, Timwi ! :-)
Anything that will reduce redundancy in maintenance
is
wonderful. Personally, I would pass on checking anything that had
been reviewed by two admins. Sure, there is a wide range of opinions
even among admins, but that would satisfy my criteria for trust.
Thank you,
Stephen W. Adair
P.S. I had never encountered a word-wrap problem before. 'Sorry about
the last e-mail. For this one I've been hitting "Enter" at the end of
each line. I hope that improves readability.
Yea, weird one, that.
(Luckily /my/ Mac OS X Mail hasn't got a problem with your emails --
it's happy to wrap them at the window border. ;-)
Just curious: What email program are you using?
Thanks and regards,
Jens Ropers
There are two types of IT techs: The ones who watch soap operas and the
ones who watch progress bars.
http://www.ropersonline.com/elmo/#108681741955837683