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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