[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Foundation Blog] Article feedback pilot goes live

[Lodewijk]

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 at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier
> <gpaumier at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
> > 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_Policy/Assessment#Project_Evaluation
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Paumier
> > Product Manager, Multimedia Usability
> > Wikimedia Foundation
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