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

[rupert THURNER]

one usage could be to support photo competitions as wiki loves monuments,
where a jury had to select good photos out of 160000 submitted.
On Nov 29, 2011 8:51 PM, "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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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