Hi Matthias,
Here are more details about today's 10am PT deployment of AFT on English Wikipedia (see also Bug 45538).
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45538
We propose to make these revisions today: * remove AFT4 feedback form on the English Wikipedia * remove feedback form from AFT5 lottery articles * switch AFT5 to 'opt-in'mode
This will remove AFT feedback forms from over 99% of the articles on the English Wikipedia, as requested in the RfC closure statement.
As a result, we would only show feedback forms for articles in the 'Article Feedback 5' and 'Additional Articles' categories. The rationale for keeping AFT5 on the 783 articles with these categories is that many community members added that category themselves and the Foundation wishes to monitor feedback on that small sample, within the scope of the RfC-approved 'continued experimentation' for this tool. At a later date, we may also want to merge these two categories together, so we only have one main 'Article Feedback 5' category, which is easier to remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5
Editors who want to enable AFT5 on articles they watch can simply add [[Category:Article_Feedback_5]] to their pages and the feedback form will automatically appear on these pages, as described here. Anyone is welcome to manually add articles to this category, as long as they are prepared to moderate feedback periodically for those articles (using the reader feedback link at the top of their article talk pages).
Articles from the lottery (or articles whose category is removed) would no longer have a reader feedback link at the top of their article talk pages (or in the 'Toolbox' left sidebar on article pages), and their feedback pages would no longer be accessible by the public (unless the Article_Feedback_5 category is added to these articles).
Regarding what to do with the data, Dario has recommended that we keep the data tables for AFT4 and for the old version of AFT5, so that all his dashboards and metrics can continue to point to that data. Would that be an issue, from a technical standpoint?
Next week's deployment will include these new tasks on the English and German Wikipedias: * remove AFT5 DB + archive * upload AFT5 DB with new schema * deploy new features * test and fix bugs
These are the new features which we have been testing on prototype, as described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing
Next steps are outlined in this updated 2013 release plan for Article Feedback: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013
Please let us know if you have any comments or questions.
Let's plan to track the deployment on IRC chat #wikimedia-dev, starting at 10am PT.
Thanks!
Fabrice