Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/New page PATROLLERS/reply (5)

I agree with you on most of your points. More time spent with each article (in creation and patrol, frankly) will certainly improve the overall quality of the encyclopedia. While efficiency improvements are a focus (ideally leading to more time spent reading and understanding the content and less time interacting with UI), I don't believe that's the primary goal of the proposed interface. Rather, they help to support the primary goals. If I had to outline them as I see them now, I think I'd say:


 * Make NPP less complex to learn and vexing to do, to attract more experienced editors into it.
 * Create an interface that can be used to train some of those newbies, in order to get more people working on the problem.

The eventual point is to get more (trained) people looking, so each of them can spend more time and be more accurate and less stressed (ie. reduced workload per patroller). Jorm's mock-up is just the first step in that direction, but I think it's a good start.

There's a long history of websites having content moderation problems, and approaching those problems by recruiting more moderators. Websites that are infamous for their trolling have managed to solve this problem without even disabling anonymous contribution, and have been doing so for over a decade. Most such sites have a system for giving moderation privileges only to people who are deemed trustworthy (via some impartial metric). I think such a metric is a reasonable thing for us to have, but we have to address these problems in the right order so as to avoid overwhelming anyone. The best system is probably one that requires agreement between multiple patrollers, since that seeks impartiality as well as accuracy, but (as has been pointed out) that's not possible until there's a lot more patrollers.

There are a lot of existing solutions out there, parts of which are probably worth adopting. Our challenges are certainly unique in some ways, but I don't think they're insurmountable by any means.