[WikiEN-l] Expanded Use of Article Feedback Tool

[geni]

On 9 May 2011 03:57, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This is a heads-up that tomorrow, we're planning to deploy the Article
> Feedback Tool, which is currently on 3,000 English Wikipedia articles,
> to a larger set of 100,000 articles. This initial expansion is
> intended to further assess both the value and the performance
> characteristics of the feature with an eye to a full deployment. As
> always, we may postpone the deployment if we run into unanticipated
> production issues.
>
> Some examples of articles that currently have the tool (at the bottom
> of the article):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_lobbying
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_cuisine
>
> The intent of the tool is two-fold:
> - to gain aggregate quality assessments of Wikimedia content by
> readers and editors;
> - to use it as an entry vector for other forms of engagement.
>
> To assess its value in both categories, we've undertaken a significant
> amount of qualitative and quantitative research already. You can read
> an extensive summary of our work so far here:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback
>
> The headline summary is that based on the data we've seen so far, we
> do believe that user ratings can be a valuable way to predict high and
> low quality content in Wikimedia, and we're especially interested in
> engaging raters beyond the initial act of assessing an article. We've
> seen very good conversion rates on the calls-to-action that follow a
> rating which we've trialed so far, suggesting that this could be a
> very powerful engagement tool as well.
>
> Beyond our own research and these engagement experiments, our goal is
> to make anonymized data from the tool available regularly, and to also
> give editors a dashboard tool that they can use to surface trends in
> the rating data.
>
> Please use the talk page for comments, questions and suggestions.
> We'll also set up an IRC office hour soon to talk more about the tool.
>
> All best,
>
> Erik


Given that it is still broken in the classic skin how about no.


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geni