Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/New page PATROLLERS/reply (17)

I see where you're coming from. Policy is complicated, and it needs to be since the world that Wikipedia tries to model is a complicated place. At the same time, getting people to take the time to understand it is hard.

Let's say each person comes to NPP with a finite amount of time and effort they're willing to invest. Maybe 1-2% of those people manage to become involved enough to understand the entire process and become experienced NPPers. If we want to increase that number, we can take a few approaches:


 * 1) Reduce the time and effort required to learn the necessary information.
 * 2) Increase the amount of time people are willing to invest, by making NPP feel more rewarding overall, or by making it feel more rewarding further back on the learning curve.
 * 3) Increase specialization, such that each individual needs to learn fewer things to be effective.

You've made inroads here, for sure, but we can probably do even better if we put the information directly in the software and present it incrementally as people work. Presumably some number of people do NPP because they find the process of doing it well, the impact it has, or learning in general to be intrinsically rewarding. Those are the people who we want to encourage. If we can create a way for people to have those feelings with less initial investment, they'll be willing to continue making an effort.

Looking at it another way, what we have now is a an excellent textbook on how to do NPP. Let's figure out how to teach the class.