"Work in progress" signfier

[futuresoup]

We need a simple and easy to way for marking story content as a work in progress, or what Wikipedia refers to as a "stub."

There is so much good content out there, I have a whole big dump of it as a txt file. It just needs to be refined as a work in progress so volunteers can help edit it and make it better as we go along. I'll never have the time to beautify it myself.

• Graphic
• Greyed out footer message
• "help us make it better!" process for onboarding volunteers to edit and contribute content updates
• Easy way for admins to add this flag to content in the content editor

[goldpbear]

This is a nice idea. What do you imagine the workflow would be for someone who wants to expand on a stub?

Given our current editor workflow, a potential volunteer content curator would need to contact the administrator for a dataset and be manually added as an administrator themselves (which might require signing up for a social service if they don't already have a twitter or facebook account).

I'm asking because it would be pretty easy to add a "work in progress" banner (and editor button to switch it on and off), but automating the workflow for onboarding new content editors would be a lot more work. But a simple banner could provide information about how to contact the existing administrator(s).