from sarahs mail ...

here was a discussion on Wikimedia-l recently about addiction to editing. Someone directed me to http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/25/we-are-hopelessly-hooked/, which contains an idea from Tristan Harris, a former Google engineer (who suggested it in general, not in relation to Wikimedia). I'm wondering where best to ask the WMF to develop this.

The idea is for opt-in software that asks editors, when they log into a Wikimedia site, how much time they want to spend on it. Several options would appear:

• the number of hours they want to spend; they would be alerted when that time was up;
• in addition they could opt to be automatically logged out after that period;
• they could also opt to be unable to log in again for X hours.

I had a similar thought recently, when I saw that one single admin on German Wikipedia was responsible for more than 10% of admin actions within a month or so. I believe that especially admins are in danger of burn out because the tasks may seem never-ending.

Therefore I think it could be a good idea to have such an option of self-limitation also for admin actions, such as:

*number of admin actions an admin wants to complete in X days, alert or log out once this limit was reached.

Well its certainly possible to do this for MediaWiki, email is an external system that we don't really control.

bawolff, the list server runs on a wikimedia server, and the stats page as well:

• https://stats.wikimedia.org/mail-lists/wikimedia-l.html
• https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

as an idea by itself, the stats page could be linked into my profile, as well as subscribing mailing lists. also a link to phabricator tasks, also to gerrit commits. and a link to trials like the software which was proposed as add on to mailing lists ... i cannot find the link at the moment. and a search like intellij or eclipse settings search to find all the settings, features and links.

but now it got so big that this would need to be split up in i do not know how many stories or so :) which leaves me wondering what you in general do to get stories out of phabricator entries *banging head*

Oh thats true - i was thinking you meant all email not just lists.

Of course the two systems arent that well integrated, but in theory its possible.

Oh thats true - i was thinking you meant all email not just lists.

Of course the two systems arent that well integrated, but in theory its possible.