Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Default to the back or the front of the queue?/reply

This is a good summary WSC, but because the bad faith  stuff can be as much  as 80% of a day's intake of new pages, I'd like to  make some refinements,  and some further suggestions.

NPP is a magnet for  younger and inexperienced wannabe Wikipedians. Firstly because it  gives them a sense of power over the content  of one of the world's biggest  web sites, a power  that requires neither qualifications nor  user-group  permission, whereas they  would need to  climb a very greasy  pole to  become a moderator of even a modest  run-of-the-mill  Internet  forum. Secondly, they  love gadgets, and the live feed in  the left  side bar is a huge attraction - because the special:new pages does not  refresh  automatically in  real  time.

The first technical suggestion  that  needs consideration therefore is to  increase (or offer options for) the number of new pages in  the side bar feed from  its default of only  ten page names; interest  gets lost  as soon  as they  are pushed off the list  by  new arrivals. At peak times, new pages can arrive at  a rate of one every  ten seconds; this is enough  to  keep  several  patrollers occupied and what  they  miss or can't  do, becomes dependent  on  people working  from  special:new pages or from  the back  of the list.

The second technical suggestion  that  could be taken into  consideration, would be to  introduce a more sophisticated system of colour cding  for the highlighting  of the entries in  the special:new pages as I  have described in  a posting elsewhere on  this forum.

A third technical possibility that  could be introduced depends on  patrollers being schooled to  do  all  the tasks that  are recommended in the instructions at  WP:NPP. Similar to the way  issues are queued at  OTRS (or any  other ticket  system software for that  matter), as soon  as a new page is under review, it  could be flagged as 'grabbed and in  process'. What we are now talking  about are refinements to  the Zoom Interface that  incorporate more of the kind of features of the OTRS  interface. Naturally this will  only  be understood by  participants here who  are OTRS agents or who  have worked on  customer support  ticket  systems. With a suitably  qualified army  of New page Patrollers, it might  even be possible to  control  all new pages within an hour  or two. This would not only  avoid a backlog  building  up,  but  it  would be a work around for the orgiinal p^roposal  that  Snottywong, Blade, and I  designed at  WP:ACTRIAL. features could be introduced such as a button 'Send to  AfC' that  couold automatically leave a mdessage on  the creators' talk  p)ages such  as "Welcome to  Wikipedia and thaynyou  for your contribution. Your new article has been transferred to  Articles for Ccration  where it  will  shortly  be reviewed for publication." At  AfC it  will  then either be passes as patrolled, or tagged per usual for maintenance, or tagged for deletion   by  admins. This suggestion  depends however, very  much  on  New Page Patroller being  a user right. I've read plenty  of arguments against  creating  user rights, but  wehave created them before, some as unbundled admin  tools, and some for other tasks such  as the now redundant  'reviewer' from  the Pending  Changes episode -  perhaps these reviewers could be the first  candidates for an NPP quqlficqtion, but  on  the other hand, the 'Reviewer' righ  was handed out  indiscriminately, even to  individuals with  a known history  of disruptive editing.

These are just Ideas, but  I  hope that  anyone reading  this, especially  the WMF, will  accord them  due audience, and not  write them  off again just because they  have not  been conceived by  the WMF staff themselves.