[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

Oliver Keyes okeyes at wikimedia.org
Thu Feb 9 04:40:43 UTC 2012


We'll experiment with wordings as the testing progresses. On your other
point - again, how can we find this out without testing it? If little is
done with it, we can look into junking it, but nothing ventured...

On 9 February 2012 04:34, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > On the first one, no idea - if you have any idea how we can test this
> > without full deployment, please, go ahead.
>
> feedback was sent to contributors?
> did the contributor make use of the feedback?
> if not, why not?
>
> > On the second, it should scale;
> > we're using a randomised sample (minus DAB pages)
>
> I'm not talking about server scalability.  im suggesting that you dont
> know whether the community can use the feedback effectively without
> answering the first question.
>
> "Improve this page" is unfounded until there is evidence that the
> feedback *will* be used by the community.
>
> p.s. it should be "Improve this article"
>
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