User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School

Wiki School

I would like to set up something, which I will call for the moment "Wiki School" (I thought of the name "Wikipedians Academic Knowledge Improvement School", which gives Waki School, but decided the joke would be lost in translation ;-)).

I would see it particularly as a way to train people in the more admin-type tasks (like watching Recent changes for vandalism, translating from language X to Y, etc.), and to doing things in the best way possible (like labelling all edits).

Grading

I imagine a wiki-belt "grade" type of system (like judo belts). A grade does not represent power, more knowledge and experience. Some of the categories on which the wiki-belt would be awarded, with some ideas as to how they might be graded:

length of service (< 1 month, 1-2 months, 6 months etc.)
number of edits (< 10, 10-100, 100-250, 250-500, 500-1000, 1000-2000, etc.)
%major edits labelled
%minor edits labelled
template use (changed a template, created a template, created a complex-template...)
politeness ("has shown politeness", "consistently shown politeness", "shown great politeness and restraint in continued and hard discussions where personally attacked..."
fighting vandalism (1 vandalism reverted, 5-10 reverts, 10-50 reverts...)
encouraging and helping newbies
etc.

Extra tasks according to users general skills

translating
writing a bot or other code

As I'm still quite a white belt in terms of all this, there are many more things which I do not know about yet, which only you black belts out there can help me add to the list!

Wiki Belts

Wiki Belts
Colour	Minimum number of edits	Minimum length of service	Other criteria
White	100	1 week	None. At this level the user has demonstrated that they are more than a 1-edit wonder.
Yellow	500	1 month	At this level the user has shown that, in addition to making a decent amount of edits, are also beginning to be aware of some of the other features in editing. In addition to the criteria at the preceeding belt: User should have made edits which have clearly added value to Wikipedia User should have demonstrated good use of Edit summary field User should have demonstrated mastery of links with text which is different to the link word User edits should show that the "Show preview" button was generally used before doing a "Save page"
Orange	1000	2 months	At this level the user should demonstrate that they are able to competently perform large edits. In addition to the criteria at the preceeding belt: User should have demonstrated confidence and ablity to do big and bold edits User should have demonstrated a high percentage of edits with Edit summary, both for major and minor edits User should have demonstrated ability to do rollbacks, renames, and other page level tasks User should be able to point to edits which show that they have read and followed some of editing guidelines
Green	1500	3 months	At this level the user should demonstrate that they have a good grasp of the more advanced editing tools (such as templates). In addition to the criteria at the preceeding belt: User should have demonstrated ability to use and modify templates correctly User should have demonstrated ability to use the wiki table syntax User should have demonstrated ability to use Content links correctly
Blue	2500	6 months	At this level the user should demonstrate that they have moved beyond being highly competent at editing, and taken part in many of the other tasks. In addition to the criteria at the preceeding belt: User should have done some time on Wikipedia:cleanup User should have performed some work on Category:Wikipedia_categories_in_need_of_attention User should have done some time on vandal patrol User should have taken part in an active collaboration User should have taken part in one or more projects from the Community Portal
Brown	5000	1 year	In addition to the criteria at the preceeding belt: User should have shown have done work in some other area where he has specialised knowledge (translation, writing, bots, ...)
Black	10000	2 years	In addition to the criteria at the preceeding level: User should have led at least one original initiative, idea, or other general task

Curriculum

To the newbie user, it is quite easy to get the hang of editing, and then after a while you learn to maybe change templates, and add photos, but it is very easy to then feel you "want" to to other things but you're not quite sure what. The stream of people who are signing up for administrators RfA is a sign of that general desire to do more. The following should be a list of tasks which the user would do well to help with and learn how to do:

Please add your own suggestions (preferably with links to more info)! Colours refer to grade.

(white) show correct use of "Show preview" button to avoid unnecessary edits (can't check this, but can certainly see when user is rather too trigger happy by minor corrections after a major edit)
(white) able to use "Edit summary" for large and small edits
typo correction
creating user subpages
factual infomation addition
adding templates to a page
adding category info to a page
creating a template
fighting vandalism
get involved in Category:Wikipedia maintenance
get involved in Category:WikiProjects
get involved in Category:Wikipedia backlog
get involved in Community Portal tasks
make sure you're done/tried everything in Help:Contents
investigate and report a copyvio
close a keep afd

Peer review system

I would like to see a peer review system, which would give any Wikipedian the chance to submit themselves to review by other Wikipedians. It would be structured rather like the RfA system:

there is a "peer review" request page for each person
there is a central "request for peer review" page listing each sub-page

Other wikipedians would then give there comments on the persons work:

what they have done well
what they could improve on
what things they should try and do more of etc.

RfA pre-test

I would like to see a simple RfA pre-test (similar to Wiki school above) to help people full of enthusiasm avoid applying when they are not ready - and to point them to other things they should be doing!

e.g.

. How many edits have you done? (1-100 = 1 point, 100-250 = 2 points, ...)
. What is your %major edits labelled? (5-10% = 1 point, ....)
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Total up your score:

0 - Get going kiddo! Admin? You're not even acting as a user yet!
1-10 Welcome aboard! Great that you have already made a contribution. Wikipedia needs people like you. Thanks! But not quite ready for admin ;-)
11-20 etc.

(This proposal is referenced on Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Wiki School proposal)

Hi Brusselsshrek. You might like to make this a user subpage. Good for scratchpadding this sort of thing. If you want to, cut your proposal click this link and paste it in. Happy editing.James James 09:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)