On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Aaron L Halfaker<hal...@cs.umn.edu> wrote: > As part of our continuing work within Wikipedia, my colleagues and I are > conducting an academic (non-commercial) study in which we have developed > a modification that is designed to help users work together more > effectively by changing the interface for reverting other editors.
Interesting. Well, I've installed it. Some thoughts: 1) It's ugly. :) 2) There's a bit of assumed background which you're not spelling out, such as the 3RR policy, the difference between revert/undo/rollback, WP:BITE etc... 3) I knew how to install it, but would most people? 4) To be honest, most of the time that I undo, I probably don't want to alert the person to the fact. Vandalism, or various mistakes for example. 5) If you intend this to be a permanent tool, consider wording like "Undo and send a message" rather than "Be very nice". Being "nice" is not necessarily a consideration - telling a vandal to sod off and not do it again is not "nicer" than just reverting them. But I guess you know what you're doing... Steve _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
