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