[WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Nihiltres
(Pardon me if I'm doing something wrong regarding the mailing list, I'm a newbie to posting despite lurking for some time) David Lindsey wrote: snip I would like to think that we can all agree that Professor Wertheim's critical response is a helpful one, and that adapting the article

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Charles Matthews
Nihiltres wrote: snip I strongly believe that showing very prominently the level of review a given article—or even a given *revision* thereof—has received, and the perceived level of quality involved, is a good thing. The Wikipedia 1.0 assessment system (Stub, Start, C, B, A, GA, FA…)

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 April 2010 20:50, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Nihiltres wrote: snip  I strongly believe that showing very prominently the level of review a given article—or even a given *revision* thereof—has received, and the perceived level of quality involved, is a good

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-27 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
From: Julia Kasmire j.kasm...@tudelft.nl Could you tell me, or tell me how to find, the following: the date of the first infobox on wikipedia? the rate of increase in infoboxes, or at least the number of infoboxes at several points in time and the date that number was measured? These are

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the most difference to the reader. So I would make that central to any system: from 5 to 6, say. I have seen perfectly decent articles labelled

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Charles Matthews
Thomas Dalton wrote: On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the most difference to the reader. So I would make that central to any system: from 5 to 6, say. I have seen perfectly

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 April 2010 23:14, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Thomas Dalton wrote: On 27 April 2010 21:33, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Well, the research I remember says the transition from B to A makes the most difference to the reader. So I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-27 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Nihiltres wrote: (Pardon me if I'm doing something wrong regarding the mailing list, I'm a newbie to posting despite lurking for some time) David Lindsey wrote: Finally, though this idea failed to gain any real traction on wiki, I would like to state my support for the idea of adding a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Eugene van der Pijll eug...@vanderpijll.nl wrote: snip The oldest infoboxes predate [[T:Infobox]], and even templates themselves; they will be very hard to count. The earliest infobox I found was at [[Beryllium]], on 2 Feb 2002. It wasn't called Infobox then,