On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely synonymous with Indian comment boards. I strongly feel, having this on India articles will generate more trash than any feedback and 100x load more on editors to cut the junk, moderate etc. If
Hi Srikanth,
determining the signal/noise ratio on different types of articles is exactly part of the current evaluation. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Feedb... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Data_and_metrics
Importantly, * these free text comments aren't yet visible through the site; we're collecting them for the initial analysis; * if we find that we get a reasonable amount of actionable, useful free text suggestions this way, building scalable systems for filtering/managing those comments is precisely the next item on the agenda.
Some ideas on how that could work (very preliminary) are here, and more are welcome: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirement...
Your participation is much appreciated and Oliver can give you and anyone additional pointers to get involved.
I do personally believe this could be a really, really important step for getting many more people involved, but it's also - for sure - very important to get this right. Nobody has any interest in re-inventing YouTube comments or similar crap.