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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote: > Link to the original article: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ > > As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're > launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback > from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also > inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a > workgroup tasked with evaluating it. > > The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily > assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a > Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools > used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. > We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking > feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs > improvement. > > The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public > policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such > as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. > Board of Education/. > > Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with > the community to build tools and features. As main users of the > software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature > performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article > Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the > user community can help us determine whether resources should be > allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the > users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought. > > More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers > page [1]. > > If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're > familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to > participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, > please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article > assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's > Assessment Team [4]. > > Thank you, > > Guillaume Paumier, > on behalf of the Features Engineering team > > [1] > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot > [3] > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup > [4] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Assessment#Project_Evaluation > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > Product Manager, Multimedia Usability > Wikimedia Foundation > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] http://www.gpaumier.org _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
