Forum:Implementation of Draft system

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Logohub Administrator 16 June 2022 Reply or edit Report post

With the surge of socks by users like Chuck, PBSArchive and Noah, and also to combat the huge number of stubs/empty pages created on this wiki, I think we should implement a Draft system similar to Wikipedia, or perhaps a system similar to the Writer system in WF. That means, newly-registered users would not be able to create pages in the main namespace until they reach a certain edit count, but they could do so in the draft namespace which could act as some sort of a "community sandbox". This is what User:Hb1290 said in another thread: Also I wouldn't be opposed to adding a draft space. It would be a useful place for new editors to figure things out and a good place to put things that aren't mainspace quality but aren't vandalism, trolling or crappy enough to warrant deleting them altogether. It would be an extra step of quality control that we probably need since we're getting more encyclopedic and moving beyond "Scaaaaaary logoz" and "cheesy factors". As for how it would work, we should at least create some guidelines, like: As Logohub said we can have it so autoconfirmed users can't move their own drafts to mainspace. Autoconfirmed at the moment kicks in at 500 edits. we should be able to tweak permissions to stop them moving pages. Might cut down on page move vandalism too. Don't draftify an existing page without reason (it's considered disruptive). Also notify someone when you draftify an article they made (Maybe make a talk template for this). When draftyifying, mainspace redirects to drafts should be cleaned up. Such redirects can be listed for speedy deletion as uncontroversial cleanup Drafts that haven't been edited in a certain time-frame (we'll need to decide on this) can be deleted. Again, authors should be notified of this as a courtesy. If a draft is deleted an author can request an admin to restore it A lot of this is adapted from the guidelines at WP:DRAFTS

Hb1290 Administrator 16 June 2022 Reply or edit Report post

Just wanted to note that I already created the Draft namespace at the time that previous thread was active. I didn’t fully implement a system then because I thought some more discussion around guidelines was needed. Also wanted to add that draft space would be useful for even experienced editors, particularly if you’re gradually building an article but you don’t think it’s ready for mainspace yet