Countering active admin flight
(Regarding Wizards and the like, a range of concrete ideas have been proposed and gained significant support early on. It's mainly (but not all) in Archive #1.)
I would recommend tangible incentives for top-line volunteers at least at the level the Red Cross provides before I would agree to asking people who want to create an article to fill out a form. We tried complicated forms for copyright concerns on Commons, but a lot of people just click around them and choose the license from the big pull-down menu (HTML form INPUT TYPE=SELECT) instead of going through the forms.
I'm not opposed to them, I'm just saying there are a lot more tangible things that need to be done immediately to, for example, reduce the number of contested prods which come back to undeletion requests. Treating admins like respectable volunteer organizations treat their top volunteers is one of those things.
There's a whole thread (several actually by now) on wizards and interfaces, and ways we can use both. You're missing the point on all of these, best look up those threads (on this wiki) and see what we have been thinking as an overall approach. What you're thinking is crude and indeed gets in the way as much as it helps.
In what way do you find those thoughts crude? What are they getting in the way of?
If there are more developed examples of "Wizard" interfaces, please cite them.
"Crude" relates to your point:
- "We tried complicated forms for copyright concerns on Commons, but a lot of people just click around them and choose the license from the big pull-down menu (HTML form INPUT TYPE=SELECT) instead of going through the forms."
I would say that's very crude (ie, agreeing with you), and that kind of approach would not be too productive.
The broad concept that task force members have in mind is very different. I'll look up the cites in a bit (sorry for the delay, not much time free the last day or so), but you can find them on this taskforce's threads and archived discussions. That said, it's a bit of a tangent here.