Link to the original article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a workgroup tasked with evaluating it.
The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs improvement.
The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. Board of Education/.
Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with the community to build tools and features. As main users of the software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the user community can help us determine whether resources should be allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought.
More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers page [1].
If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's Assessment Team [4].
Thank you,
Guillaume Paumier, on behalf of the Features Engineering team
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
On 22 September 2010 19:24, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs improvement.
Hrmph!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/1.0
(not that the original purpose from 2005 still holds, but anyway)
- d.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Link to the original article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a workgroup tasked with evaluating it.
The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily
assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs improvement.
The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. Board of Education/.
Why does the feedback tool have no reference to the public policy initiative?
Casual users and readers will not know why they are seeing this tool in some articles, and may be curious.
@aude
Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with the community to build tools and features. As main users of the software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the user community can help us determine whether resources should be allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought.
More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers page [1].
If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's Assessment Team [4].
Thank you,
Guillaume Paumier, on behalf of the Features Engineering team
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot [3]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
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just wondering - are the ratings accompagnied with a time mark? (ie, can you see whether the rates changed when the page was improved without making a screenshot every day?)
Lodewijk
2010/9/22 aude aude.wiki@gmail.com
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Link to the original article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a workgroup tasked with evaluating it.
The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily
assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs improvement.
The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. Board of Education/.
Why does the feedback tool have no reference to the public policy initiative?
Casual users and readers will not know why they are seeing this tool in some articles, and may be curious.
@aude
Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with the community to build tools and features. As main users of the software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the user community can help us determine whether resources should be allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought.
More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers page [1].
If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's Assessment Team [4].
Thank you,
Guillaume Paumier, on behalf of the Features Engineering team
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot [3]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
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Yes, that's a good idea -- we should have something that lets users know why the ratings tool exists.
I've created the following page on the project wiki to capture feature ideas:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup...
Please post any ideas you may have on improving the feature here. And please sign up for the workgroup [1] if you'd like to be more involved with the feature!
Howie
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup
On 9/22/10 11:55 AM, aude wrote:
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Link to the original article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a workgroup tasked with evaluating it.
The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily
assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs improvement.
The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. Board of Education/.
Why does the feedback tool have no reference to the public policy initiative?
Casual users and readers will not know why they are seeing this tool in some articles, and may be curious.
@aude
Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with the community to build tools and features. As main users of the software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the user community can help us determine whether resources should be allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought.
More information about the tool is available on our Questions& Answers page [1].
If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's Assessment Team [4].
Thank you,
Guillaume Paumier, on behalf of the Features Engineering team
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot [3]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup [4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
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Howie Fung, 22/09/2010 22:13:
Please post any ideas you may have on improving the feature here. And please sign up for the workgroup [1] if you'd like to be more involved with the feature!
Is there any chance to receive an answer to questions? Are you completely ignoring Wiktionary? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Work...
Nemo
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