Quality

Added the following to the "Quality" goal and rationale, reflecting a key finding of the Quality taskforce:

Goal - Editorial processes to minimize quality lapses and ensure all articles meet some minimal standard are developed.

Rationale - While quality is hard to metricize, a key finding was that Wikimedia is far more likely to be judged in the public eye by its lapses or failings, however few, than by its successes. Attending to substandard material (including a simple baseline that all content should be able to reach and maintain within a short period after creation) is likely to be disproportionately valuable and create a perception of reassurance to readers. Substandard and fledgling content is also considerably easier to detect and easier for most editors to improve, compared to mature content.

continuous quality improvement process

i would like to see more proactive processes and actions.

for example the BLP case: rather than tag unreferenced BLP's until the number increases until there is a "crisis", implement a contest, process, team to edit BLP's to include references. this could be rolled out for all tags: tags are a suboptimal solution; better to recognize and fix as we go along in a continuous process.

train and mentor editors to include better formating, references, writing in articles. increasing the fledgling from stub level to C level from the beginning.

i would hope that the perception problem is not an excuse for putting out fires rather than fire prevention. merely monitoring new pages does nothing to improve the heritage content

Quality is important, usually measurement is involved in helping us assess how we are doing against our goals (KPIs). Sharing the progress graphically for quick comprehension of where we are in terms of rolling averages and against forecasts is useful and can help people see the macro (big) impact each of us individually makes to the whole, can increase engagement, loyalty and motivation. MikeBeckett 10:08, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Remember people, there is NO "crisis" in Wikipeida today, just "chicken". Mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool 01:47, 20 September 2011 (UTC)