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    • Stimulate article contributors to expand wiki article

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    Issue: Stimulate article contributors to expand wiki article

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    1. issueid=4003 September 17, 2014 6:52 AM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      Stimulate article contributors to expand wiki article

      A major problem with wiki websites is stubs, low quality and unfinished articles. Not only are these annoying to users. Google's review team actively looks for those and punishes websites for it. As Vaultwiki's main benefit is that it relies on communities, its possible to resolve this. Unfortunately VW does not yet take advantage of community support. It does not yet call upon community members to resolve such problems. It would be easy to do so.

      Often an article contributor will work on the article for some time and then forget about it.
      If the contributors would get a reminder notification to motivate the user to improve the wiki then this would result in better articles.
      It could work like this:

      Dear $username,

      On $date you started $wiki_name and contributed $wiki_edits number of wiki edits to the article. Your last edit was on $date.
      The article has been read by $views people since $article_start_date. Users have rated the current quality of the article as $article_rating. They found the importance to be $article_importance. Likely more than $views_per_x_year people will have a need for information in the coming 5 years.
      Please consider if you can improve this article. You will help a lot of people with it. Wiki edits can receive reputation ratings. A higher article rating and article state increases your reputation.

      This community is reliant upon people like you who together build a great wiki resource like $site_name.
      You get the general idea of this.
      My example relies upon: Regression: Article quality & Importance ratings
      However, it is very much possible to implement part of this suggestion without quality and importance rating.
      It's important not to spam contributors with such notifications, because otherwise they will find it annoying and ignore it. So it would be useful to set parameters for how many total notifications per month a user can get (minimum and maximum) and how what the maximum frequency of notification for the same article can be.

      It would also be useful to set parameters on which articles should not cause notifications. For example articles that are already rated as expert/complete and receive a low number of views. Obviously its more useful to get members working on articles that still need a lot of work and get a lot of views.
    Issue Details
    Issue Number 4003
    Issue Type Feature
    Project VaultWiki 4.x Series
    Category User Alerts / Likes
    Status Accepted
    Priority 7 - Minor Features / Enhancements
    Suggested Version 4.0.0 RC 2
    Implemented Version (none)
    Milestone VaultWiki 4.2
    Software DependencyAny
    License TypePaid
    Votes for this feature 0
    Votes against this feature 0
    Attachments 0
    Assigned Users (none)
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    1. October 7, 2014 1:11 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      I am considering implementing a flagging system to deal with this issue. Rather than relying on user ratings which, when used to form an aggregrate score, might not express directly that a pressing change to the article is needed, or if something has already fixed, it would not be clear from the existing ratings alone.

      Instead, if an article is vague, empty, or otherwise incomplete, users and moderators can just say so, and it will flag the article similar to how Template:Stub or Template:NeedsReferences have been traditionally used by editors. I think moving this flagging to a core feature and possibly allowing non-editors access to it (with a permission of course), can make it more useful and would be easier from a development standpoint to determine when is an appropriate time to send notifications to editors/authors.
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    2. October 7, 2014 5:42 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
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      That would work as well.

      However, ratings need to be dynamic and existing ratings loose value after more edits take place. This is something that needs to be factored into the ratings system. As such there should not be much deviation between the state of the article and its current rating.
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    3. November 13, 2014 3:12 PM
      pegasus pegasus is offline
      VaultWiki Team
      Per my last response to: https://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/2899/
      The installer should create a number of pre-made flags already, including a 'Needs references' flag.
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    4. March 8, 2015 4:21 PM
      Alfa1 Alfa1 is offline
      Distinguished Member
      Flags can complement ratings. Flags do not exclude or replace ratings. Flags are singular. Someone may flag an article to have specific issues which needs to be resolved. A user may also be of the opinion that an article is low quality, while the next user may thing its high quality. You can not resolve that with flags.
      Non the less flags will be extremely useful. And can also be used to alert editors that an issue exists with their article. I agree with you that flags are probably the most effective way to alert editors about this.
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