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

2010-04-28 Thread Charles Matthews
Thomas Dalton wrote: Sorry, that bit in brackets wasn't meant to be a summary of the criteria for each class, it was a description of the difference between the classes. Each has lots of other criteria, but they are essentially the same for both. Getting back to one of the main points: I

[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] 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

[WikiEN-l] Expert feedback on Featured Articles

2010-04-25 Thread David Lindsey
Following some of the responses to my recent article on featured articleshttp://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2721/2482, I decided to carry out a single test run of what adding expert feedback to the featured article process might look like. To this end, I selected

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

2010-04-25 Thread Charles Matthews
David Lindsey wrote: snip 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 fifth criterion to WP:WIAFA: 5. The article, if possible, has been reviewed by an external subject-matter expert. Even if no such