Thanks for the notice Oliver. Glad to see the work is coming along with the tool and
I'm looking forward to seeing the data on how these new, qualitative-focused, versions
perform. Which one generates the best reader feedback that is useful for editors and which
generates good reader-to-newbie conversion :-)
One thing I'd like to ask (which may be in the on-wiki documentation, sorry if
you've already answered there) is what is going to happen to the other articles that
are not part of this new test group?
If the quantitative-focused version (the current "star-rating" system) is being
dropped completely, and because I don't think that we're actually doing anything
with article ratings that are still being given by readers (either on a per-article or
complete data-set basis), therefore could we turn it off the rest of the articles that are
not part of the test group? Also, if we are confirmed to be replacing the star-rating
system then I think it's also a bit disingenuous to the readers to continue asking
them for star-ratings that we're not planning to use.
When you've got good data on the new (qualitative) system then the most successful
version is going to be rolled out progressively, eventually to all articles - like it is
now. But in the mean time, can we turn off the depreciated version for the rest of the
articles?
Sincerely,
-Liam
Peace, love & metadata
On 21/12/2011, at 19:16, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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
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