[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Thu Dec 22 13:13:21 UTC 2011

And thanks for bringing this up, Jussi! You're usually pretty on the ball,
so if you misunderstood what I wrote, it's most likely because my prose was
unclear :). I appreciate the chance to correct myself before the poor prose
leads others to get the wrong impression too :).

On 22 December 2011 13:11, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> That's correct, Tom. 0.3 percent of the English language Wikipedia is
> being used as a testbed for the *rest* of the English-language Wikipedia;
> a tertiary testbed, since we've already run things through on both
> prototype and labs :). Obviously if we decide "lets deploy to other
> projects" we'd take localised concerns into account, and not just jump in.
> With the last version, interestingly, we had several projects *request*that we switch it on.
>
>
> On 22 December 2011 13:02, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:56, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>> <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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!
>> >
>>
>> Site-wide means "on all of English" not "on all projects" (which would
>> be "cross-wiki" or "cross-project"). Currently AFT5 is deployed on a
>> subset of enwp articles (about 11,000) for testing. From what I can
>> gather, there is a fairly long process of testing planned to see
>> whether the deployment on English is an improvement on the existing
>> AFT. After that process, if it is deemed to be an improvement and the
>> objections have been fixed, then it is possible to offer it to other
>> wikis.
>>
>> The small deployment on English will be used to inform the decision as
>> to whether to roll it out fully on English, not on all projects.
>>
>> It's a fairly major change, so I think the Foundation are (correctly)
>> being conservative in their rollout on English, and being careful to
>> collect data to inform a community decision in the future. It's not
>> suddenly going to turn up on projects other than enwiki without a lot
>> more discussion and consultation.
>>
>> But then I've just been watching the process quietly from the
>> sidelines: I may have got this all wrong.
>>
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