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!

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

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)

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)