Talk:Wikipedia article creation workflow improvements

Let's be smart
Some things we could take into account when putting people into the normal article creation process vs a sandbox/namespace safespace article creation process
 * age of account
 * number of articles created
 * number of articles deleted or marked for deletion

Part of me wonders if we should just completely switch over to this model for all users, and have this namespace/draft environment be the way that users make new articles, I think the very slight efficiency hit we'd have on power users would be far outweighed by the benefits to most users, it would also save time vs creating a bunch of logic around how and when we show users the new vs old process. We could even clean up the "move article" process to be much friendlier with two separate front ends, one which is about "publishing" and article from draft, and the other existing move article flow. We could investigate better ways of user reaching out to each other for help collaborating on articles in the draft space as well as part of this work. Jaredzimmerman (WMF) (talk) 12:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)


 * There's a very easy way to limit any new system to being thrown at new people only, which is using the autoconfirmed permission. For a minimum viable product, that's what we'll probably go with, rather than trying to create a metric from scratch right away. Ideally, even if someone has passed the 10 edits/3 days threshold, they might not have created an article before, but data we have right now suggests that it's non-autoconfirmed users who have the most trouble (see the Mr.Z-man analysis I linked to in the Notes on the doc).
 * As for simply having experienced users just use the same process... I don't think that will fly to be honest, at least not for a while. In early discussions about a Draft namespace, for instance, it's very clear that existing users want to be able to simply skip any guides and go for direct creation. Experienced users are also calling for retaining the ability to use userspace drafts. Part of that is, I think, because they assume that a draft space will involve requiring pre-review of an article in order to publish. I think this is clearly a failed idea, even for new users. If we can prevent a draft space from operating under the requirement for peer review pre-publishing, then there's a decent chance experienced editors will give it a try. But overall, creating logic to alter article creation for new users specifically is not a big burden. Steven Walling (WMF) &bull; talk   21:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Draft user stories
Here's a few...

"As a user who has written my first article I want to ask for help proofreading it so it fits with the standards of wikipedia"

"As a user who has written my first article I want to ask for help co-writing an article so I can better meet other editors, and become part of the community"

"As a user who has written my first article I want to ask for help from other users who like to contribute in other ways such as reference searching, or photo uploading/finding so that we can all play to our strengths and interests"

"As a user who has written many articles I want to make myself available to new editors who are interested in writing articles in my areas of interest so that I can help or mentor them"