On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> PS: I agree with Nemo and bawolff that the current wording of "Last edited 
> by..." highlights the elements that are perhaps less relevant. Still, the 
> purpose of that object is correct (telling to the readers that such articles 
> have been created by people like them). Have other text alternatives been 
> considered? What about something like "Created by NN volunteers or more".
>

Agreed.

In the discussion about this last year,[1] I suggested:

"I think the strapline could be usefully tweaked, to indicate that:
"[dozens/hundreds/two] editors have worked on this article over its
lifetime" - This would provide useful context for understanding
articles-in-general, and also the individual-article being looked at.
(i.e. I could see and think "it's only been edited by 1 person!
Suspicion!").

[...]

Based on all the above, I would tentatively suggest changing the
strapline to instead say something like:

"Last edited 10 months ago, by one of 245 editors"

and then on wikis that use an article-assessment system (ie. some
Wikipedias, but not many), it could add that info:

"Last edited 10 months ago, by one of 3 editors. Stub-class quality."

....
[1]  See rationales and details at the bottom of this sub-thread
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Mobile_site_strapline#Is_there_a_compromise.3F

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