[Foundation-l] Office Hours on the article feedback tool

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:33:30 +0100, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Can we make sure that any new generation Article Feedback tool is
properly
> tested, and that testing includes:
> 
>    1. Implementing it on a random group  of articles and comparing them
>    with
>    a control sample to see which group of articles had the more edits
from
>    newbies;
>    2. Whether the collecting of feedback on ways to improve the article
>    generates additional comments or diverts some editors away from
actually
>    fixing the article.
>    3. Which group of articles recruited the most new editors to the
pedia.
> 
> Please don't implement it if the testing shows that it diverts people
from
> fixing articles to pointing out things that others can fix.
> 

And I think this time showing it to the Research Committee prior to
running the tests would be a good idea.

Cheers
Yaroslav