Do we have any data on frequency of reverts of users (or more particularly new users) based on characteristics of the article being developed? There is a proposal about "in-context help and onboarding" of new users:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding where I am suggesting that we don't allow new users to edit articles of higher importance, higher quality, higher readership, or higher page-watcher-ship, or about living people because I strongly suspect that this is where new users are at much higher risk of reverting. I take this approach during training, I suggest the topics they edit and choose what I regard as "low risk" ones (and provide some sources). This produces almost no reverts of their first edits which I think is very important in gaining confidence with basic editing skills. So I was curious about whether anyone has crunched such data or has data that could be easily crunched to confirm or deny my hypotheses. Kerry _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
