Thanks for the detailed update, Fabrice, indeed! And congratulations
to you and your team. :)
Has anyone mentioned before that most mails on this list are quite a
pleasure to read? Very productive, informative, constructive and
friendly. #ilike
Best,
Nicole
On 21 March 2013 01:51, Fabrice Florin <
fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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@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_v5/Sar_%28Eukaryoten%29
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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