Disputatio Vicipaediae:Communicatio

Requesting attention[fontem recensere]

Iustinus has started to maintain a list of topics in the taberna where he is asking for feedback or attention. I talked with Iustinus some days ago about the problem that the list of "recentchanges" (nuper muatata) is growing and especially that mass changes are hiding requests for attention.

My suggestion was to have a manually maintained file where users add their requests for attention, maybe like this:

*[[pagename]] need your help --Rolandus 09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)
*[[pagename]] have an idea --Rolandus 09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)
*[[pagename]] should be discussed --~~
*http:... do not agree --Rolandus 09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)
*http:... anyone has sources? --Rolandus 09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)
*[[pagename]] help --09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)
*http://la.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=pagename&curid=2&diff=2&oldid=2[reply]

The last line is an example for a minimal entry: It is just the diff-link.

We could add headers for the date.

In fact the taberna can do this, but it might be flooded as well, if this concept will be heavily used.

Another solution would be to request bot-status for mass edits, however, I do not think that this is a good concept and it will not solve the problem in the long run: At some point in the future there will be too many users to watch all their edits.

We could also use templates or categories, however, then we will not cover the chronological aspect. When you come back after 4 weeks, you will just see a snapshot of the unsolved problems, but not the chronological list of requests for attention.

Templates are good where a problem exists temporarily and does not interest anybody after it has been resolved.

Here I am talking about edits which will be of interest for you, when you come back from vacation after 4 weeks and do not want to go through more than 15000 (!) changes. Yesterday we had more than 500 edits.

--Rolandus 09:53, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I find the Taberna works well, but you may be right that it will gradually be overloaded with such requests. If so, a separate page such as you suggest would be a solution. But the fewer places we have to check, the better, and we do need to go on checking the Taberna ... Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:10, 4 Martii 2007 (UTC)[reply]