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> 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
>
>
> _______________________________
>
> Fabrice Florin, Product Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
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>
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>
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Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation