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
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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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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-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
IIRC, a lot of the non-junk that ended up coming in via MobileFeedback actually was article error reports – but since these were being sent to our mailing list rather than put onwiki for editors to act on, they just died quietly.
I think this is a nifty feature! As Kaldari says, it's already a sidebar item on desktop Spanish and Russian wiki, and it looks like on Russian it's getting a bit of use: http://bitly.com/1tXjH9n (that's a special page with all the open error reports, and there are over 80 from the last 20 days). One cool thing about this feature on desktop is that there's a character limit – you can't submit reports that are too short. That's one thing you might consider adding to make this more useful/effective.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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The submit button is disabled unless the report is at least 15 characters long. No idea if that is the ideal limit or not though.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
IIRC, a lot of the non-junk that ended up coming in via MobileFeedback actually was article error reports – but since these were being sent to our mailing list rather than put onwiki for editors to act on, they just died quietly.
I think this is a nifty feature! As Kaldari says, it's already a sidebar item on desktop Spanish and Russian wiki, and it looks like on Russian it's getting a bit of use: http://bitly.com/1tXjH9n (that's a special page with all the open error reports, and there are over 80 from the last 20 days). One cool thing about this feature on desktop is that there's a character limit – you can't submit reports that are too short. That's one thing you might consider adding to make this more useful/effective.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Maryana Pinchuk Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org
Not sure what the limit is on ruwiki, but it looks to be producing pretty decent feedback. I'm not seeing any total crap on that page, and the deleted revs in the history are pretty scant (last one was from March 2014).
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The submit button is disabled unless the report is at least 15 characters long. No idea if that is the ideal limit or not though.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Maryana Pinchuk mpinchuk@wikimedia.org wrote:
IIRC, a lot of the non-junk that ended up coming in via MobileFeedback actually was article error reports – but since these were being sent to our mailing list rather than put onwiki for editors to act on, they just died quietly.
I think this is a nifty feature! As Kaldari says, it's already a sidebar item on desktop Spanish and Russian wiki, and it looks like on Russian it's getting a bit of use: http://bitly.com/1tXjH9n (that's a special page with all the open error reports, and there are over 80 from the last 20 days). One cool thing about this feature on desktop is that there's a character limit – you can't submit reports that are too short. That's one thing you might consider adding to make this more useful/effective.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
-- Maryana Pinchuk Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org