[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

[neil at thebabbages.com]

I guess my concern is that it may encourage readers to type in suggestions and take it no further rather than take the next step and begin editing themselves. Definitely important to watch for any changes in the rate of new editors contributing. It also implicitly makes it "someone else's problem" to fix things compared to our current stock response of "if you see things that could be better, fix it yourself. " I'm not saying this is intended but it runs the risk of making projects look they have people exercising editorial control. 
Neil 
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From: Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org>
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 04:47:54 
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

Sure..except we weren't asking contributors to use this feedback to fix up
the articles. I do know that even without any standing system to improve
it, several article improvements were made. All I can give you
quantifiably, though, is that editors saw the feedback, and thought a big
chunk of it was "stuff I can use".

On 9 February 2012 04:44, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> you say that you have existing feedback, and contributors have seen
> this feedback.
> You *can* already determine whether that feedback (already in hand)
> resulted in article improvements.
>
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Oliver Keyes
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Wikimedia Foundation
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