[WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia Foundation Blog] Article feedback pilot goes live

[Guillaume Paumier]

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Guillaume Paumier
<gpaumier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Link to the original article:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/
>
> As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're
> launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback
> from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also
> inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a
> workgroup tasked with evaluating it.
>
> The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily
> assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a
> Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools
> used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles.
> We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking
> feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs
> improvement.
>
> The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public
> policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such
> as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v.
> Board of Education/.
>
> Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with
> the community to build tools and features. As main users of the
> software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature
> performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article
> Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the
> user community can help us determine whether resources should be
> allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the
> users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought.
>
> More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers
> page [1].
>
> If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're
> familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to
> participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it,
> please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article
> assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's
> Assessment Team [4].
>
> Thank you,
>
> Guillaume Paumier,
> on behalf of the Features Engineering team
>
> [1]
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot
> [3]
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup
> [4]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Assessment#Project_Evaluation
>
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> Guillaume Paumier
> Product Manager, Multimedia Usability
> Wikimedia Foundation
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