Everyone,

As some of you may know, we launched an experimental Article Feedback feature as part of the Public Policy Initiative last week.  The "Article Feedback Tool" enables readers to quickly assessthe sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale.  It is currently deployed on about 300 articles [1] in the area of Public Policy on the English Wikipedia.  More details may be found on the blog post [2] as well as the post on Foundation-l [3].

We've been capturing the ratings data and have some early analysis to share around the types of ratings users are providing.  There are some interesting differences between anonymous and registered users:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Early_Data

The dump of the article-level data is also available [4] for those who are interested.

If anyone would like to be involved in the ongoing research and evaluation of this tool, please sign up on the Article Feedback Workgroup page. [5]

Howie

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot
[2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-September/061056.html
[4] https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aikdcg5HdSKbdFRhdUN1Rm1iZzB5dUdMUlY4YzAwNmc&hl=en#gid=0
[5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup