Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Please record a screencast of yourself doing New Page Patrol/reply (6)

Steve, I do  understand, and I  don't doubt  for a moment  that  it  is well  intended. It may not  be a demonstration  of lack  of confidence in  the work  that  Snottywong, Blade, and I  and others have already researched since October last  year, but  it  certainly does appear that  you  are not  satisfied with  that  feedback,  and that  this NPP Zoom  project  is still  lacking  focus on  critical issues. I still  feel therefore  this request  for screencasts will  only  serve to  duplicate, rather than substantiate, the information that  has already  been made available to  you  and your team in  the form  of adequate tables and stats by  mature and dedicated users - who  are not, BTW, a bunch  of dedicated exclusionists. Snottywong is an expert  at  providing  data and has already  provided plenty  of scripts that  were to  be used to  extract  data  for the ACTRIAL. If you require more tables and up-to-date data runs, I am sure that  if he is asked nicely  he would be only  too  pleased to  oblige -  he is after all, like me and Blade, deeply  concerned with  these NPP and new page creation  issues.

As far as the request  for screencasts is concerned, the wannabe Wikipedians who  are patrolling  new pages supercficially  at  the speed of light  will  not  want  to  slow down in  order to  address such  a request, while we, the experienced patrollers, are also  content  builders and admins, and won't  necessarily  have the time or inclination to  engage on  a mission so  complex. It requires downloading  special  software -  which I  am  not  even aware of being  available for my  computer platfiorm - fiddling  with  it  until it  works, then uploading  the files to  some destination  that  you  will  no  doubt  create.

Because of the difference between the work of newbies (that will  most  probably  never be made available as screencasts anyway)  and screencasts of the more professional  patrolling  done by  established editors and admins, I  doubt  that the screencasts will ever provide you  with useful  new information. I for example do  most  of my  patrolling  one one computer screen that  has a dedicated Wikipedia window for NPP, while flitting  back  and forth  from  other Wikipedia tasks such  as adding  content, deleting  pages, following  up  SPI, and answering  new messages on  my  talk  page.

Thus with all  due respect, I  would strongly suggest  that  for the time it  would take for you  to  review the content  of several three-hour  screencasts, you  may  prefer to  consider  doing  some new page patrolling  yourself in that  time, and gain  some first-hand empirical  experience. If other members of your WMF team, such as Raindrift (best  if those who design  cars have actually driven one), and  perhaps those who   heavily  criticised our efforts at  ACTRIAL without  even reading  the background to  the trial, would also  do  the same, you  would have some first-hand notes to  compare.

You may  also  wish  to  review these slightly  older, but equally   important statistics prepared by  BlanchardB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Blanchardb/CSD_statistics BlanchardB that  provide a similar experience. The actual situation  today  is however far worse.