On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Oliver Keyes scire.facias@gmail.com wrote:
To be clear, we're not talking about junking the idea; we will still have an "Article Feedback Tool" that lets readers provide feedback to editors. The goal is more to move away from a subjective rating system, and towards something the editors can look at and go "huh, that's a reasonable suggestion as to how to fix the article, I'll go do that" or "aw, that's really nice! I'm glad they liked it so much"
And, the idea is to experiment with some alternative approaches in parallel with the existing deployment, not to scrap the existing deployment and start over immediately. We don't know yet which reader feedback mechanisms are going to be the most useful to meet the two core objectives (engaging readers as much and as usefully as possible in article development, and measuring change-over-time in quality). Initial wireframes to be tested against each other can be found here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirement...