This is really interesting Howie, thanks.
I'm particularly fascinated to see the couple of trends emerging that you
identified (although the sample size - quantitatively and chronologically is
small). That we tend to be our own worst critics consistently rating our
articles lower than non-logged-in users seems logical - we hold our work to
a high standard. Also, that Wikimedians seem to have a greater consensus
about what constitutes "good" according to four metrics. Your "to do"
section seems pretty busy too, good luck with that! Especially to compare
these ratings with the existing quality metrics of FA/GA/B/C/Start...
I wonder whether you have any plans to produce graphical representations of
an article's rating over time? This would let us see not only how an article
is rated *now* but how that rating has changed.
-Liam
wittylama.com/blog
Peace, love & metadata
On 29 September 2010 23:50, Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Everyone,
As some of you may know, we launched an experimental Article Feedback
feature as part of the Public Policy Initiative last week. The "Article
Feedback Tool" enables readers to quickly assessthe sourcing, completeness,
neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale.
It is currently deployed on about 300 articles [1] in the area of Public
Policy on the English Wikipedia. More details may be found on the blog post
[2] as well as the post on Foundation-l [3].
We've been capturing the ratings data and have some early analysis to share
around the types of ratings users are providing. There are some interesting
differences between anonymous and registered users:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Early_Da…
The dump of the article-level data is also available [4] for those who are
interested.
If anyone would like to be involved in the ongoing research and evaluation
of this tool, please sign up on the Article Feedback Workgroup page. [5]
Howie
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
[3]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-September/061056.html
[4]
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aikdcg5HdSKbdFRhdUN1Rm1iZzB5dUdMUl…
[5]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup
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