842379 - discover and fix shamelist of current worst pages.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dashboards, defect)

Description

[Gregg Lind (Fx Strategy and Insights - Shield - Heartbeat )]

(me sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong, so discount as necessary!)

Similar to SUMO, it would be nice to have "shame list" that combines:

* how good is this page  (requires building ratings on existing pages)
* how visited is this page (from GA stats?)
* how stale is this page

Close but not quites:

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboards/revisions?locale=en-US&user=&topic= 
* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Project:About#About_MDN  also has suggested tasks, but this relies on other 

STINKINESS = highly-viewed * bad-content * (stale?)



https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Dashboards

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Thanks for the idea, Gregg. Could you please answer the following questions? We want to be sure we understand exactly what you have in mind.

What problems would this solve?
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Who would use this?
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What would users see?
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What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 2

[Gregg Lind (Fx Strategy and Insights - Shield - Heartbeat )]

Background
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Discussions with :habber about audiences for MDN, and what works well, and what doesn't, as a technical user, and sometime page editor.

What problems would this solve?
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1.  Documentation gets stale, incomplete, or incompatible
2.  Google searches often yield old / stale pages
3.  Better assigning / triaging edit / repair / deprecation work.

Who would use this?
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1.  Feature devs, as part of landing features
2.  MDN editors / contributors, to identify 'sore spots'
3.  MDN team, as a metric for success / improvement (a la sumo).  


What would users see?
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0.  (Deeper view) A sortable list of all (or some!) existing wiki page, with tuples (page name, last edit, last editor, satisfaction score, visits/period, AWESOMESCORE)
1.  "Shame list view" - list of least awesome pages


What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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1.  ENDUSER - If existing, casual end users can rate pages
2.  EDITOR - assign work based on stinkiness during sprints 
3.  EDITOR - fix pages likeliest to be bestest


Is there anything else we should know?
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This sort of thing might work best with, but does not require other changes, such as:

a.  ability to deprecate pages
b.  better Google Analytics search result massaging
c.  ability to 'score pages' using some sort of rating widget (i.e., rate this page)
d.  automatic notification of last editor at 6 months and 1 year to "yo, check yer pages and examples for relevance
e.  Autobuilding / running of code examples.  

Some of those are cheap (a,b,d), some aren't (c,e) :)!

Comment 3

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Awesome, thank you Gregg. Will look into this, balance with our other priorities of course.

Comment 4

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

We are doing this now using "documentation status" pages for a given section on MDN to measure quality and to find "stinky" pages.

The tracking bug for this project is bug 968736
More explanation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status/How_to_use_and_create_doc_status_pages

Example for a status page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status/JavaScript

Feel free to comment on this project and/or open specific bugs to make it better.