Wikipedia talk:Contribution Team

Wikimedia UK Donor -> Editor programme?

Hello Contrib team! I am more-or-less in charge of the donor communications programme for Wikimedia UK. Recently we sent a thankyou email to people who had donated in the 2011 Fundraiser, and found that a number of people emailed back saying "actually I'd be really interested in editing Wikipedia but I don't know how/don't know where to start". At the moment, myself and other board members are dealing with these queries ourselves but I would be really interested to see if you guys would be interested in developing a more robust system that we could invite our donors to participate in if they were interested. Please drop me a line (email is best!) Regards, The Land (talk) 11:20, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Backlog listing

Hi ya'll - I was just checking out Wikipedia:Contribution Team/Backlogs (after seeing it listed in the signpost), and realized that Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation wasn't listed. I don't know if there's any special way you choose which links are on that page, but it seems that the dab category would fit right in. Dana boomer (talk) 17:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Stick it in, by all means. At this point, the WP:GBD page functions more as a tracking dashboard than anything else. It does a good job at that too. The more backlogs we can squeeze in, the better the picture we form. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:54, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Well, I was going to go add it in myself, and then I realized that I have no idea what all the coding is doing on the backlog status page. Can someone else do it who is less likely to blow up the page than myself? Thanks! Dana boomer (talk) 20:45, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I left a message for Drilnoth. He knows more about the coding than I do. Sven Manguard Wha? 13:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Backlog motivation

I recently had an idea for increasing editor motivation for reducing backlogs. A brief proof-of-concept trial was attempted at User:Scottywong/Backlog prioritization. The main idea is that by organizing the articles in each backlog by page view, we can both increase motivation and increase efficiency of clearing out backlogs. Fixing problems on an article with 500k monthly page views is far more important (and gratifying) than fixing problems on an article with 5 monthly page views. Please take a look at the above-linked page and let me know if you have any comments. I hope to expand this to larger categories if there is interest. —SW— ^talk 00:21, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

This is a great idea, and I can't believe it took over a year for someone to say it. When there's a backlog of 20k articles in a category, it can be overwhelming. Making a tool for showing the highest priority problems might help people feel like they're making a significant impact. — Laura Scudder | talk 18:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Drive 2012

Can anyone tell about the Drive 2012, when will it start?-- Assassin'S creed ^{T - E - C - G} 04:21, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello

This project sounds interesting. Although i'm not quite sure what it's all about, i'd sure like to help out… eliminating backlogs is the perfect thing for my kind —kidding! (or not?). Cheers, benzband (talk) 19:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Automation

Lets take Playtex as an example. It's a high-priority stub ripe for improvement. Try to envision the following on the Talk page.

According to SourcesBot321, the following sources have shown up on a Google News feed, but aren't yet incorporated into the article:

• Spinner, Jenni (June 16, 2012). "Playtex launches pacifier-sterilizing case". Packaging Digest. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• <insert>

There are RSS feeds that provide the data in a usable format. If it is technologically possible, I think it would improve participation %1,000, by delivering a feed of sources to incorporate. It's almost like a To Do list for any article. User:King4057 17:31, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Message to anybody still watching this page

It appears that this project did a couple of backlog drives in the past. I've proposed a Wikipedia wide watchlist backlog drive at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Watchlist notice backlog reduction. You might be interested. Ryan Vesey 21:52, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

A request, and a thought.

I'd like to see a backlog drive done for Category:Articles with links needing disambiguation from June 2011, which has about 1,400 very old disambiguation fixes to be made. Also, I would propose that in promoting backlog drives, the team should look to the monthly contest carried out at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, which has recently been enhanced by an agreement by the WMF to provide free t-shirts to the top three monthly contest winners. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:33, 4 September 2014 (UTC)