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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