phoebe ayers, 14/10/2012 21:19:
Also, not to state the obvious, but 'helpful' feedback in and of itself doesn't mean the article changed for the better; I've marked plenty of feedback 'helpful' without doing anything further about it. Is there any data about rate of change of the articles since AFT was enabled? (probably pretty hard to measure since articles are individually fluid at much different rates, depending on topic, and you'd have to control for the baseline likeliness of random bursts of editing somehow).
This was the original aim of AFT, to monitor the Public Policy initiative effects, so it's definitely possible, but I think they're mostly doing research about the tool itself now?
Nemo