Quim Gil wrote:
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or was it specifically designed for extension rating?
I'm not sure how related is this, but Article Feedback allowed user rating
- comment, and it was deployed in Wikimedia servers. Editors didn't find it
that useful for regular articles (too much extra work processing too little value feedback on top of Talk pages)
This, imo, was caused by lack of moderation software (structurising it, for instance).
Quim Gil wrote:
, but maybe this could (with small or not so small adaptation, I don't know) in the very specific context of a beta feature page.
I would agree.
Quim Gil wrote:
For instance, imagine a page created specifically for a deployment of a specific version of a specific beta feature e.g. Winter 0.x. There you would expect ratings plus optional short feedback without requiring to the user any background nor any commitment to engage in a discussion. The deeper discussion would flow (pun intended) across releases at the beta feature talk page e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter
Beta features already has this - place where people can rant off what they think. But there also is a question as to who would take it from the "dumping ground" form to a list of bugs and priorities. I hope we can code some software that integrates well with a bug tracker and eases some routine work.
Merging and splitting bugs? Localisation for bugs, anyone? :-)
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