[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Minata: I imagine the plan is "deploy on enwiki, and if other wikis ask for
> it, they can have it too", but I'll find out :).
>
> In reply to "It allows readers to provide feedback; that feedback is not
> likely to
> result in improvements except in rare cases" - actually, no. We ran several
> rounds of hand-coding, and between 35-70 percent (rounding; it depends on
> which form you use, and which criteria) of feedback is deemed useful by
> editors. This could be praise for the article, suggestions for new things,
> or notes of errors with existing content.

And what percentage of the feedback resulted in article improvements?

And will that scale when feedback is being left about all articles?

Even useful notes left on the talk page are unlikely to result in
article improvements within a reasonable timeframe.

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John Vandenberg