On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)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/Feed…
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_Requiremen…
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.
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Erik Möller
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