Hi folks,
Here's a quick update on Article Feedback v5, our reader engagement tool.
1. German Poll
After a six-month pilot, the German Wikipedia community has just started a two-week poll
to determine its next steps for Article Feedback. German editors are now voting to decide
whether or not to introduce AFT for all their articles -- or only make it available on an
opt-in basis, using the new enable/disable tool. If you know people who contribute to the
German Wikipedia, please invite them to participate in this poll (1).
2. French Release
After a three-month test, the French Wikipedia community is getting ready to deploy
Article Feedback more widely, on 40,000 articles. The plan is to test the tool on this
wider sample for another six months, then to deploy it on all articles at the end of the
year, unless a new community vote is requested. (2)
3. New Opt-in Tool
As requested by English and German community members, we recently deployed a new
Enable/Disable Feedback tool, to make it easier for editors to quickly invite reader
feedback for articles they work on -- or to disable that feedback if they no longer need
it. You can learn more about this tool on our AFT talk page on the English Wikipedia (3)
-- and we encourage you to use it on articles you edit. This was our final feature for
this release, and we hope you will find it useful.
4. Metrics Dashboards
We now have updated metrics dashboards for all projects that are using Article Feedback at
this time (4). They are helping us track which of our new moderation tools are being used
the most by users across different languages: on average, about 12% of moderated feedback
is marked as useful, with 4% marked as resolved, 46% as no action required and 17% as
inappropriate, as detailed in this spreadsheet (5).
5. Next steps
Once we hear the results from our first pilots, we will consider supporting a second group
of projects that wish to use to AFT5 in the second half of 2013, as outlined in our
updated release plan (6). If you know of large projects that would be interested in
enabling reader feedback on their sites, please invite them to contact us by email to
discuss a possible release later this year.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank German editors User:se4598, User:TMg and
Denis Barthel (WMDE), as well as French editor Benoît Evellin for all their hard work in
introducing Article Feedback to their communities in recent months: we have really enjoyed
our collaborations with you, which have made for a much better product. Many thanks as
well to developer Mathias Mullie, designer Pau Giner and analyst Dario Taraborelli for
going beyond the call of duty to create some of the final features requested by our
communities!
Regards as ever,
Fabrice
(1) German Poll
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Artikel-Feedback
(2) French AFT page
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Outil_de_retour_des_lecteurs
(3) Enable/Disable Tool
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5…
(4) Article Feedback Metrics Dashboards:
Feedback Moderation
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/en/fp/
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/de/fp/
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fr/fp/
Feedback Volume
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/en/aft5/
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/de/aft5/
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fr/aft5/
(5) Article Feedback Stats 2013
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_75_5y5sKWdD…
(6) Article Feedback 2013 Release Plan
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Release_Plan_2013
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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