[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

John Vandenberg jayvdb at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 04:34:05 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On the first one, no idea - if you have any idea how we can test this
> without full deployment, please, go ahead.

feedback was sent to contributors?
did the contributor make use of the feedback?
if not, why not?

> On the second, it should scale;
> we're using a randomised sample (minus DAB pages)

I'm not talking about server scalability.  im suggesting that you dont
know whether the community can use the feedback effectively without
answering the first question.

"Improve this page" is unfounded until there is evidence that the
feedback *will* be used by the community.

p.s. it should be "Improve this article"

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John Vandenberg




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