Wikipedia talk:Random pages test
Idea originally conceived by?[edit]
Reposted from User talk:Rebecca#Random Pages Test:
Hi there Rebecca. Sorry to see that you are retiring. I was hoping you can clear something up before you become inactive: On the page Wikipedia:Random Pages Test it is stated that the idea for a Random Pages Test was originally conceived by User:Ambi; "Ambi" redirects to your username.. If it is referring to you, can you verify if this is true? I just want to have the correct information there, because I found an old Signpost article: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-11-14/Article evaluations#Random quality checks, that states that in fact User:Kosebamse started these tests, so I'm a little confused.. did you conceive the idea while Kosebamse did the first one based on your idea? It was from way back in 2005 so if you can't remember that's quite alright. :) I've also left a message at Kosebamse's talk page to join this discussion so hopefully I can get this sorted out and attribute proper credit where it's due. Thanks. -- Ϫ 09:30, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
- Hi there and thanks for the interest. I honestly don't remember whose idea it was. It may have been discussed as a concept somewhere and I may have then picked it up. The quality of articles was much discussed then and I seem to remember discussing them myself on some mailing list. I certainly don't claim any credit for the original idea. May I ask why the question has come up? Kosebamse (talk) 12:05, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
- Oh because of the contradictory information between the Signpost article and what's stated at the WP:Random Pages Test page. For historical purposes I just wanted to clear this issue up so the page can have the correct information on it as to who gets credit for starting the idea, otherwise I intend to remove the bit about who started it altogether. Rebecca (User:Ambi) responded on my talk page saying she does not know who started it either, so I will just remove the "...idea was originally conceived by..." line and repost this thread on the talk page as an explanation. Thanks for the reply, regards Ϫ 20:06, 15 December 2009 (UTC)