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) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ EE mailing list EE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee

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: _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/

Hi Denis, Thanks so much for your kind words -- and kudos to members of your team and community who made the German release go so smoothly. Have you received any more feedback from the German community about the new features? I am really glad that we were all able to work together so well -- and look forward to more transatlantic collaborations with you all! In the meantime, we hope to deploy on the English and French Wikipedias this Tuesday evening, and will keep adding final features that are still awaiting code review in coming days. Stay tuned ... Fabrice On Mar 25, 2013, at 3:31 AM, Denis Barthel wrote: 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(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) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- Projektmanager Team Communitys Fon +49 30 219 158 26 31 Mobil +49 172 23 13 811 E-Mail: denis.barthel(a)wikimedia.de -- Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. 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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: -- Projektmanager Team Communitys Fon +49 30 219 158 26 31 Mobil +49 172 23 13 811 E-Mail:denis.barthel@wikimedia.de -- Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ EE mailing list EE(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:EE@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee