No, there is no reliable test interface for it until (if) the code is merged.
Max asked how this is different than the old MobileFeedback feature that was killed last year. My understanding is that that feature was killed because the signal to noise ratio was too high. MobileFeedback asked users for any kind of feedback and included options such as 'Technical problem', 'Article feedback', and 'General'. This feature is ONLY for submitting reports of errors in articles. I think that having a very specific purpose assigned to the feature will improve the signal to noise ratio, as well as having an interstitial that encourages the user to fix the error themselves rather than reporting it.
Kaldari
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is there a test instance anywhere for us to test this?
Thanks, Dan
On 29 December 2014 at 15:00, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks to finally having some time to write code during the holiday slow-down, I put together a little feature prototype as a research project: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182082
The feature is just a simple interface for reporting errors on article pages (similar to what exists on the Spanish and Russian desktop Wikipedias). It adds a 'Report an error' button to the bottom of article pages. When they click the button it encourages them to fix the error themselves by editing the page. If they still want to submit the error, it gives them a text input for doing so. The error report is then posted on the article Talk Page, the overlay is closed, and the user is shown a toast notification thanking them for their feedback.
This is intended to be a lightwight form of microcontribution, but without all the extra overhead of ArticleFeedback and without the complexity of real talk pages (or Flow). Unfortunately, it can only be used if the user is allowed to edit, so it will be of limited value on non-Italian Wikipedias.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Kaldari
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