Topic on Talk:Growth/Article creation for new editors

Sdkb (talkcontribs)

Overall, this looks good!

If it helps to have a user story for patrollers and others in similar roles, I'd offer something like this: As an experienced editor who interacts with newcomers during the article creation process, I want to have tools that allow me to quickly identify submissions appropriate for the encyclopedia so that they can be approved and refined. For submissions that require additional work before they will be suitable for Wikipedia, I want tools to help me quickly assist newcomers in completing this work. Lastly, for submissions that will not be suitable for Wikipedia, I want tools to help me quickly discard them so that I can focus my efforts elsewhere.

Under the goals section, a small quibble with this line: Minimize bad articles created, to reduce content moderation burden. Bad articles being created isn't the only aspect of the current system that results in more of a moderation burden. Bad drafts increase it, too, even if they never get beyond AfC. And good (in the sense of "on a notable/suitable topic") articles/drafts increase it when they're flawed in ways that increase the time it takes to review them (such as having excess references).

KStoller-WMF (talkcontribs)

@Sdkb thanks for the feedback, I made two modifications based on your feedback:

Added the patroller user story, with some revised language and an added requirement. Let me know what you think!


And I changed the wording of that goal to:

  • Minimize the number of low quality articles and drafts created, to reduce content moderation burden

Actually saying "low quality" is also probably not quite right. Should I instead say "Minimize the number of articles and drafts created that are not notable or otherwise not suitable for Wikipedia..."?

Sdkb (talkcontribs)

That looks good! And yes, I'd change to "not notable or otherwise not suitable" — low quality articles present a maintenance burden because they need so much fixing up, but if they're notable/suitable we still ultimately want them because something is better than nothing.

KStoller-WMF (talkcontribs)

Updated. Thanks for the feedback!

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