Hi Fabrice, hi all,
Please allow me to add many thanks to all supporters from the community whose continuous stream of ideas, help and efforts were a valuable resource for this new version. I'd like to thank the members of the German Wikipedia community, especially TMg, Miss Sophie, Atlasowa, Svebert, Der Hexer and Goldzahn. Over here at Wikimedia Deutschland, my colleagues Kai Nissen and Angelika Mühlbauer (former Angelika Adam :)) were of great help on the technical side.
I am grateful for all the hard and dedicated work which has been done by Mathias and all members of the team in San Francisco. But some special thanks to Fabrice Florin, who right from the beginning had a special understanding for the needs of a transatlantic cooperation between WMF, WMDE and the German Wikipedia community. Your commitment and your willingness to team up across borders is exemplary.
It's been a pleasure working with you and we look forward to future collaborative projects and cooperation with your teams.
Best regards,
Denis Barthel
Am 21.03.2013 01:51, schrieb Fabrice Florin:
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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