Hi SJ,
Thanks so much for your kind words -- and for your thoughtful
recommendations on the English Wikipedia RfC, which were really
appreciated ;o)
I also forgot to thank one more team member, designer Pau Giner, who
streamlined the user interface to make it a lot easier to moderate
feedback.
Some of the first comments we are getting on the German Wikipedia
talk pages have noted this improvement -- and a former critic of the
tool just said that "the new system is much better, clearer, faster".
Kudos to all who made this possible!
Fabrice
On Mar 20, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
This is great. Thanks for the update, Fabrice,
and for shepherding
this through many different community discussions.
SJ
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Fabrice Florin
<fflorin(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:fflorin@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am happy to report that we deployed an updated version of
> Article feedback v5 on the German Wikipedia yesterday, at long
> last. :)
>
> This new version includes these new features:
> • Better feedback filters
> • Simpler moderation tools for editors
> • Separate reader moderation tools
> • Discuss on talk page / contact post author
>
> The release went well and the tools are now being tested by German
> community members. You can see these new features in action on
> this central feedback page for the German Wikipedia, where
> feedback from about 13,000 articles is being collected:
>
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Artikelr%C3%BCckmeldungen_v5
>
> If you would like to test the new features on the German
> Wikipedia, please restrict your posts and moderations to this
> minor test page:
>
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Artikelr%C3%BCckmeldungen…
>
> If you prefer to test in English on our prototype site, visit this
> testing page on MediaWiki:
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing
>
> We've updated our help pages on MediaWiki to describe all the new
> features that are being deployed:
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Help/Editors
>
> Next, we are planning to deploy Article feedback to French
> Wikipedia next Tuesday, March 26 (starting with just a few
> articles, then going up to 42,000 articles a few weeks later). We
> will also be releasing this new tool on the English Wikipedia next
> Tuesday (that release is being delayed so we can complete the
> feedback data conversion -- as well as disable the 'feedback from
> watched pages' feature, which is causing database cache issues).
> Note that AFT will only be enabled on an opt-in basis on the
> English Wikipedia, as requested by the community in last month's
> RfC; but many editors have already started to re-enable AFT5 for
> articles they are watching, and we hope the tool will continue to
> help them and others improve Wikipedia based on reader feedback in
> coming months.
>
> To track this multi-site release, visit this Etherpad page, which
> is being updated every day and includes a list of known issues:
>
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/AFT5-release
>
> This will be our final release for AFT this fiscal year. Our
> current plan is to complete these three deployments, then monitor
> activity on the English, French and German Wikipedias in the next
> couple months and wait for their communities to vote on a wider
> release. If these pilots are successful, we will consider
> supporting a few more deployments this summer, for projects that
> have reached consensus for a wide release of the tool (so far,
> we've received a variety of requests from the Chinese, Hungarian,
> Kannada and other Wikipedias, as well as Commons). A more detailed
> roadmap for this product is outlined on this 2013 release plan:
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to give a big round of
> applause to lead developer Matthias Mullie for this major
> milestone, as well as thank Benny, Kaldari, Luke, S Page, Aaron
> and Asher for carefully reviewing all his new code -- and Chris,
> Oliver and others for helping test it. Special thanks as well to
> our partners at the German Wikipedia: Denis Barthel, Sebastian
> Peisker and Raimond Spekking, who have worked beyond the call of
> duty to make this release possible -- as well as to Benoit
> Evellin, who is spearheading the French deployment. Last but not
> least, we are very grateful to all other colleagues who
> contributed to this final phase: Dario, Philippe, Roan, Howie,
> Terry and Erik, to name but a few. It's a true pleasure to be
> working with you all!
>
> I will send another update after we deploy the new features on the
> French and English Wikipedias.
>
> Onward!
>
>
> Fabrice
>
>
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>
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>
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