On 9 May 2011 03:57, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > This is a heads-up that tomorrow, we're planning to deploy the Article > Feedback Tool, which is currently on 3,000 English Wikipedia articles, > to a larger set of 100,000 articles. This initial expansion is > intended to further assess both the value and the performance > characteristics of the feature with an eye to a full deployment. As > always, we may postpone the deployment if we run into unanticipated > production issues. > > Some examples of articles that currently have the tool (at the bottom > of the article): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_lobbying > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_cuisine > > The intent of the tool is two-fold: > - to gain aggregate quality assessments of Wikimedia content by > readers and editors; > - to use it as an entry vector for other forms of engagement. > > To assess its value in both categories, we've undertaken a significant > amount of qualitative and quantitative research already. You can read > an extensive summary of our work so far here: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback > > The headline summary is that based on the data we've seen so far, we > do believe that user ratings can be a valuable way to predict high and > low quality content in Wikimedia, and we're especially interested in > engaging raters beyond the initial act of assessing an article. We've > seen very good conversion rates on the calls-to-action that follow a > rating which we've trialed so far, suggesting that this could be a > very powerful engagement tool as well. > > Beyond our own research and these engagement experiments, our goal is > to make anonymized data from the tool available regularly, and to also > give editors a dashboard tool that they can use to surface trends in > the rating data. > > Please use the talk page for comments, questions and suggestions. > We'll also set up an IRC office hour soon to talk more about the tool. > > All best, > > Erik
Given that it is still broken in the classic skin how about no. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l