[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours - 2nd December, 19:00 UTC

[Oliver Keyes]

It'd be good! I'm not sure what the usefulness would be, though. So, the
two aims behind the AFT:


   - To prompt greater feedback from readers on the quality of content;
   - To try (through the calls to action, which have actually been pretty
   successful) to prompt readers to edit.

I'm not sure how applicable these would be to Commons. I mean, how many
"readers" per se does the project get? The interface doesn't really lend
itself to browsing. It'd also be awkward trying to work out what they could
actually do, or what the feedback would be useful for; with traditional
wikis, if people go "this article sucks" we can fix it. If people go "this
image sucks" we can't necessarily take a new one, or tweak the old one to
make it better.

Still, it's an interesting idea. I do like the possibility of maybe having
a rating box that prompts readers "do you have an image of this? If so, why
not upload it?" or whatever if they provide a sucky rating for a photo.
I'll drop the devs a note and see what their plans are in this field :).

On 29 November 2011 19:36, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:

> that looks really nice, as well the intention behind it! for pictures, or
> commons in general, a rating model like the one already implements would be
> more appropriate, what you think?
> On Nov 29, 2011 8:20 PM, "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Well, if you've seen AFT5 (you may not have, so -
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5)
> > we're moving away from "rating" articles.
> >
> > On 29 November 2011 19:13, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > would it be possible to have a rating for pictures as well?
> > > On Nov 29, 2011 6:17 PM, "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey guys!
> > > >
> > > > Another AFT session - this one will be in #wikimedia-office on 2
> > > December,
> > > > at 19:00 UTC. If you're vaguely interested in playing around with
> > > > prototypes, you should attend - we'll have a lot of cool stuff to
> poke
> > at
> > > > (and then complain about when something breaks and it goes all
> melty).
> > > >
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liason, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation