Topic on Talk:ORES/Paper
Good Q. So here's where I usually show screen shots Huggle's UI changes as a demonstration in the talks I give about this. I argue that Wikipedia's quality control systems looks almost identical to how they looked in "The banning of a vandal" paper. In that way, this set of technologies hasn't adapted to take on the new, extended standpoint we have that includes the value of newcomer socialization.
In contrast, consider the Teahouse, inspire campaigns, and studies of newcomer socialization. Consider the the WikiProjects that have organized around newcomer socialization and specifically about supporting our most at-risk editors/content. When considering all this, Snuggle, was just one interesting (yet mostly insubstantial) note in what we'd expect to be a substantial innovation period.
This observation is the basis for the idea of an innovation catalyst like ORES. "Why isn't anyone experimenting with better ways to do quality control?" My answer is that "it's hard!" The only people who build advanced quality control tools are computer scientists. ORES is positioned to change that -- to reduce barriers and to spur technological progress to match our social progress in thinking about newcomers.
Jtmorgan, check out this talk @ 24:45. Here I make the points that "technology should have progressed" and use some screenshots of Huggle to demonstrate that it didn't in places it ought to have.
Do you think this is convincing?