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

Oliver Keyes scire.facias at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 14:49:16 UTC 2011


On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>wrote:

> 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
>
> I'll bring these points up with the folks :). If you have any others, do
come to office-hours.

O.

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