On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback > Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading > the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely synonymous > with Indian comment boards. I strongly feel, having this on India articles > will generate more trash than any feedback and 100x load more on editors to > cut the junk, moderate etc. If Hi Srikanth, determining the signal/noise ratio on different types of articles is exactly part of the current evaluation. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Feedback_evaluation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Data_and_metrics Importantly, * these free text comments aren't yet visible through the site; we're collecting them for the initial analysis; * if we find that we get a reasonable amount of actionable, useful free text suggestions this way, building scalable systems for filtering/managing those comments is precisely the next item on the agenda. Some ideas on how that could work (very preliminary) are here, and more are welcome: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirements#Feedback_page Your participation is much appreciated and Oliver can give you and anyone additional pointers to get involved. I do personally believe this could be a really, really important step for getting many more people involved, but it's also - for sure - very important to get this right. Nobody has any interest in re-inventing YouTube comments or similar crap. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l