[Foundation-l] quality.wikimedia.org and wikiquality-l launched

Mon Sep 17 20:20:57 UTC 2007

This looks awesome. :-)

On 9/17/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> [Please translate this announcement into other languages.]
>
> Wikipedia's roots in the more conservative Nupedia project are reflected
> by
> many in-depth discussions we've had over the years about quality
> assurance,
> filtering, and labeling.
>
> In her "4 wishes for the year 2007" [1], Wikimedia Foundation Chair
> Florence Devouard also identified "reliability" as a key goal for the
> Wikimedia Foundation. Today we're taking two small steps towards that
> goal:
>
> * the launch of http://quality.wikimedia.org/ as a portal targeting
> readers and volunteers to summarize key information about current
> quality initiatives, combined with
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiquality as a more in-depth
> description of our plans,
>
> * the opening of wikiquality-l as a mailing list for related discussions:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l
>
> Notably, these pages describe our current plans with regard to the
> "FlaggedRevs" extension, a MediaWiki extension developed by Aaron
> Schulz and Jörg Baach (with financial support from Wikimedia
> Deutschland e.V.) which makes it possible to identify revisions of
> articles that are known to be of a certain quality, and to change the
> default view based on that information.
>
> The public beta of this feature (initially on dummy websites, i.e. not
> production environments) will begin as soon as a security review of
> the current code has been completed (expected later this month). In
> the meantime, please give your feedback on the quality.wikimedia.org
> portal, add translations, and subscribe to wikiquality-l to join
> future discussions about the specifics of any particular initiative.
>
> [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/4_wishes_for_year_2007
>
> Sincerely,
> Erik Möller
> Board member, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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