Hey guys
Just dropping everyone a note to let you know that the new version of the
Article Feedback Tool -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5 - is
now live on a subset of articles, in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5 :). This may not
impact as it may not be deployed on a page you edit, but I wanted everyone
to know just in case you do see the new designs and are unsure as to where
they come from (or in case you get queries from readers or newbies along
the same lines).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help…
provide some more context, and answer questions; if you have any
comments or queries that aren't solved through that page, feel free to
email me and I'll try to get back to you promptly.
A reminder that this is a preliminary rollout to a very limited set of
articles - around 0.3 percent of enwiki's content. This is just to test
whether or not it's beneficial, and we don't plan on keeping every single
form in place :).
--
Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
The theory that the Article Feedback Tool may be encouraging newbies to
edit is an interesting one, though not in my view born out by the
statistics. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
Comparing the number of newbies in recent months with the same month last
year I can't help but notice that last year we were getting rather more
newbies. This current testing phase gives us the opportunity to test not
just against the earlier version but against no AFT at all. Of course its
possible that if we didn't have the AFT encouraging readers to rate rather
than edit articles we would be having an even steeper decline in the number
of newbies. But logic and the statistics make me think otherwise.
WereSpielChequers
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> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:58:42 +0000
> From: Tom Morris <tom(a)tommorris.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment
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> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:41, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm NOT making the argument that the AFT is inherently bad (in fact I'm
> really looking forward to the v5 of the tool to see how much good-quality
> reader feedback we get, which will hopefully enliven a lot of very quiet
> talkpages). I'm also NOT making the argument that the WMF needs to seek
> some kind of mythical consensus for every single software change or new
> feature test. What I AM saying is that now that v4 has been depreciated it
> is both disingenuous to our readers and annoying to our community to have a
> big box appear in such valuable real-estate simply because it will
> eventually be replaced by a different, more useful, box. As you say, this
> replacement is "still quite some time away" so it's a long time to leave a
> placeholder on the world's 5th most visited website.
> >
>
> >From what I understood, part of the point of the article feedback tool
> was that it increased the number of readers who edit - because they
> click through the star ratings and then were invited to edit
> (apparently, despite the phrase "the encyclopedia you can edit" and a
> big link at the top of the article saying "Edit" and little links next
> to each section that say "edit", and ten years of people in the news
> media, academia and so on excoriating Wikipedia for being unreliable
> precisely because anyone can edit it, there is some group who do not
> know that you can edit Wikipedia).
>
> Even if we are no longer using the data collected from the previous
> incarnation of the AFT (I've looked at a few articles I've written to
> see what the AFTers think of it, and it is a minor curiosity), the
> fact that it may be encouraging newbs to edit seems like a fairly good
> reason for us to not jump the gun and switch it off prematurely.
>
> --
> Tom Morris
> <http://tommorris.org/>
>
>
>
>
This is happening in about 30 minutes.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec.
22nd
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey all,
I think most Foundation-l subscribers know Philippe Beaudette from the
Foundation, but perhaps not all are aware of his title, Head of Reader
Relations, or exactly what that department is and what role it fills.
If you'd like to hear an update on the office of reader relations at the
WMF and generally interrogate Philippe, ;) this Thursday at 0:00 UTC is
your chance. Details are on Meta for how to join as well as time
conversion.[1]
Thanks,
--
Steven Walling
Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
--
Steven Walling
Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hi,
*I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
.*
Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited videos to
the WMF so they will have a copy for archive and so they can upload it to
commons also.
*Don't forget also to check our Flickr stream!:
http://www.flickr.com/WikimediaIL*
On the schedule you will find links to the videos:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
Also, on each submissions page there is a links to the video, slides and
Etherpad (if available). *For the presenter who didn't upload their slides
yet, please do so and update your submissions page.*
*** Bonus! - a video clip that we made after Wikimania to summarize the
(amazing!) beach party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-MzHGA6fc ***
It was harder than we thought - to record 3 days, in 5 simulation
High-Definition cameras, and than edit, upload and tag them - really not an
easy thing. What we thought will take us few weeks, took about 2 months -
but I'm happy that we finish with that finally :)
I think now we've made this step, we finished our commitment to the
community and to the conference participants. I Hope everyone will enjoy
and will found our (hard) work useful. I personally going to find time to
watch some of lectures... (a tip for Wikimania organizers - don't plan to
attend session during the conference, you will fail :).
And some statistics:
We have about 2TB of footages, 135GB of edit videos, all of them are in HD.
During the confrtence we produce 3 summaries video clips (and one more
after that)
Until now the videos on our YouTube channel had been watched more than
16,000 times and our Flickr stream, who have 1,425 photos been seen more
than 83,000 times!
Thanks everyone for the great opportunity to have this conference in Haifa,
and good luck to the great guys in D.C next year!
Itzik
Wikimania 2011 local team
(probably the last time i'm going to use this title...)
Hello all,
As of yesterday, when you go to a missing wiki (the redlinks on
Special:SiteMatrix) you will no longer see a static "this wiki does
not exist" error, but it will redirect to the Wikimedia Incubator,
where there is either a development wiki or an info page inviting you
to start one.
Exceptions are Wikiversity and Wikisource, because they are hosted on
different wikis.
For existing development wikis, going to for example
<http://or.wikiquote.org> directs you to the main page
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ପ୍ରଧାନ_ପୃଷ୍ଠା>. You can
also link directly to a page:
<http://or.wikiquote.org/wiki/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ> to
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/or/ରଜ_ଦୋଳି_ଗୀତ>. This also
enables interwiki links to these Incubator pages. (Interwiki bot
maintains: you are welcome to make use of that!)
For missing wikis, going to for example <http://arz.wikinews.org>
directs you to an info page
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/arz> which is an improved
version of the "this wiki does not exist" page: it is adapted to the
respective language, and the messages are localisable through
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-wikimediaincubatorinfo…>.
(Translators: you are welcome to translate that!)
It only works for languages listed on SiteMatrix, so in general it
doesn't work for Wikipedias on Incubator.
Regards,
Robin (aka SPQRobin)
I have just completed and written up a little research project of mine:
http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#the-editing-community…
Summary:
1. Talk pages are where references/links/citations go to die; less
than 10% ever make it back
2. In just the sampled edits, millions of page-views are affected
3. Conclusion: putting references/links/citations in an Article's Talk
page is a bad idea (compared to External Links)
Numbers, source code, and lists of edits are provided in the link.
--
gwern
http://www.gwern.net
Hi everyone,
These past few weeks, we’ve rotated through a couple dozen appeals with
people from different parts of the world with unique Wikipedia experiences
and personal stories to tell. It honestly has been so fun and inspiring to
help tell their stories. Right now and for the next few days, we have all
the appeals up live together. It’s so neat to see a different person each
time you open a page.
There’s an update on meta with all the appeals that are running right now:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece…
Please go check it out and read what they have to say. I bet it will make
your day better :)
We owe a huge thank you to everyone who has helped make this campaign so
special by showing readers how incredible our community is.
Thanks & have a lovely weekend,
Megan
--
Megan Hernandez
Head of Annual Fundraiser
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
These past few weeks, we’ve rotated through a couple dozen appeals with
people from different parts of the world with unique Wikipedia experiences
and personal stories to tell. It honestly has been so fun and inspiring to
help tell their stories. Right now and for the next few days, we have all
the appeals up live together. It’s so neat to see a different person each
time you open a page.
There’s an update on meta with all the appeals that are running right now:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece…
Please go check it out and read what they have to say. I bet it will make
your day better :)
We owe a huge thank you to everyone who has helped make this campaign so
special by showing readers how incredible our community is.
Thanks & have a lovely weekend,
Megan
--
Megan Hernandez
Head of Annual Fundraiser
Wikimedia Foundation