[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Thu Dec 22 02:56:11 UTC 2011

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing I'd like to ask (which may be in the on-wiki documentation, sorry if you've
>> already answered there) is what is going to happen to the other articles that are not
>> part of this new test group?
>
> Hi Liam,
>
> this is the first time we're experimenting with free text feedback in
> a serious way. We've not decided yet whether that's a good idea or
> not. This will depend in large part on the signal/noise ratio and
> volume of the feedback we're getting, which will be coded through the
> process described here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Feedback_evaluation
>
> Note, also, that some of the forms include different forms of
> quantitative feedback as well. We'll evaluate those as well, and
> compare our findings with what we've learned, and are still learning,
> from AFTv4. This evaluation will precede any site-wide changes to the
> current AFT deployment.

Sorry, did a double-take there. Tell me I read that wrong, please! My
eyes must be deceiving me or my reading comprehension not being
quite up to the task right now... But some weird brainfart made me
read that in such a way that you were suggesting that the english
language wikipedia would be used as a test bed for what should be
deployed side-wide. Please tell me I am hallucinating, misreading
you grotesquely, or there is some other clear communication disconnect!

Perhaps it is as simple a misapprehension as that while you linked
to an english language page on tbe tool, in fact it has translations
in several other language wikipedias which are trying it out as well... ?

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