On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:55:04 +0000, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
csherlock(a)ljh.com.au wrote:
Interesting idea, however shouldn't we also
use a metric to determine
whether a newbie rapidly gets up to speed on Wikipedia and becomes a
very good contributor with thousands of edits?
Can we take this into account?
So Write The Code (tm). Pleeeeeaassseee!!! (tm)
The present plan is feasible basically because it's just a matter of
enabling existing code, not writing anything new. Whether it'll fly is
another.
Otherwise - good plan. It's a paint to fixup
page moves. And I've
already pissed off enough developers (hi Brion!) by restoring a moved
sandbox to try to shift it back during one of Wikipedia's numerous
downtimes.
Yeah. Possibly the isNewbie() function needs to be set to the last 2% or
whatever, to minimise collateral inability to move pages.
The thing is that's not a definite measure, but advertising the metric
on the move page would only encourage Willy on Wheels! to work around it
with account creations and leaving them dormant until it's time for a
move attack.
Although it's a prominent PITA, the page move vandalism is probably not
presently bad enough to disable the last 10% of accounts from page moves
as an emergency measure.
What if we lowered it to 1%. how many people would that affect and for
how long roughly? ( I take it that we are still growing
exponentially?)
Theresa