[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

[Oliver Keyes]

On the first one, no idea - if you have any idea how we can test this
without full deployment, please, go ahead. On the second, it should scale;
we're using a randomised sample (minus DAB pages)

On 9 February 2012 04:17, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Minata: I imagine the plan is "deploy on enwiki, and if other wikis ask
> for
> > it, they can have it too", but I'll find out :).
> >
> > In reply to "It allows readers to provide feedback; that feedback is not
> > likely to
> > result in improvements except in rare cases" - actually, no. We ran
> several
> > rounds of hand-coding, and between 35-70 percent (rounding; it depends on
> > which form you use, and which criteria) of feedback is deemed useful by
> > editors. This could be praise for the article, suggestions for new
> things,
> > or notes of errors with existing content.
>
> And what percentage of the feedback resulted in article improvements?
>
> And will that scale when feedback is being left about all articles?
>
> Even useful notes left on the talk page are unlikely to result in
> article improvements within a reasonable timeframe.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
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Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation