Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Proposal to require autoconfirmed status in order to create articles/Trial set up

This is an extension to the discussion on the implementation of the trial of the Editors to require autoconfirmed status in order to create articles that was agree by consensus.

This is purely a discussion page for developers.

Trial set up

This discussion is is two sections:

• Technical software requirements
• Site interface messages.

In order to have everything ready for the start of the trial, Wiki software developers should be invited to make their suggestions for the technical implementation. Wikipedia site interface wording can be edited by any admin, but we need to identify what and where these are.

Discussion: Technical software requirements: discussion

(This requires input from MediWiki developers who will need to change user groups/permissions)

Needed:

• Only users of autoconfirmed status (4 days and 10 edits) to be able to create an article in live article mainspace.
• Users will be given the option to be redirected to Articles for Creation, or to a user sub page.
• Articles in any other namespace will be technically prevented from moving into main space until the user has reached autoconfimed status.

• A non-autconfirmed editor clicks on a redlink or opens a non-existent page on their browser while logged in.
• They would see the same dynamic link (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Zaur_Ardzinba&action=edit&redlink=1) they do now.
• Non-autoconfirmed users would see the same page an IP editor sees.

Site interface messages: discussion

Needed: MediaWiki:Nocreatetext is the message shown to users who try to create an article and don't have the necessary permission.

1. Move MediaWiki:Nocreatetext to MediaWiki:Nocreatetext-anon (which would be shown to anonymous users in that situation)
2. Reword MediaWiki:Nocreatetext to:

To start the article Village pump (proposals)/Proposal to require autoconfirmed status in order to create articles/Trial set up, choose one of the two options:

1. Propose the article, The article will be reviewed by other editors who will either pass it for publication, or make suggestions for its improvement.
2. Create a freeform draft, which you can ask an editor review. If it is ready, the editor will publish it for you.

Note: When your registered account is four days old and you have made at least ten edits to the encyclopedia you will be able to create articles immediately. You are strongly advised to read the Wikipedia Tutorial and the New Contributors' Help Page to ensure that your article complies with our policies for encyclopedia articles. If you are a young person, please also read Guidance for younger editors.

Option 1.

The message box above could have have an input box and buttons :

and will redirect the user to AFC. The AfC welcome page mesage will be reworded to:

Welcome to Wikipedia's page for Articles for Creation. If you do not have a Wikipedia user account but have an idea and sources for a new article, you can submit them here. If you have an idea for the title of an article, but no content for the article itself, please see Requested articles. If you have a Wikipedia user account that is at least 4 days old and you have made at least 10 edits to the encyclopedia, you can also use the Article Wizard to help you create your article. Please follow these directions to submit an article for creation.

Option 2.

Will create a user sub page with the article name, such as user:Name/Article Name (draft) with a preformatted Article Wizard template. The message box above could have have an input box and buttons :