On 10/31/2011 6:01 AM, foundation-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
On 31 October 2011 12:30, Oliver Keyesscire.facias@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure about that specific change, but one illustration might be the Article Feedback Tool, which contains a "you know you can edit, right?" thing. Off the top of my head I think 17.4 percent of the 30-40,000 people who use it per day attempt to edit as a result of that inducement. Admittedly only 2 percent of them*succeed*, but it's not a lack of motivation, methinks.
What's the definition of "succeed" there - they save an edit with a change?
Is that 2% of the 17.4%, or 2% of those giving feedback?
I wonder if there's a way to detect a failure to edit and ask what went wrong.
In a text driven interface it is a little difficult to float an interactive window asking if a reader saw any errors and if they'd like to fix them - yet that's the level most readers are on.
We must also remember that the wiki edit interface and markup can be a little intimidating to a newbie, so opening an edit window and making no changes may be more common than we think. Are there any stats on this?