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

[Howie Fung]

  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/Feature_Ideas

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 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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>>
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