[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Thu Dec 22 14:06:10 UTC 2011

Good-o. That's what I also understood your & Erik's emails to mean :-)

So - with regards to my original question....? 
In summary it was:
Now that the new versions (AFTv5) of the tool are being tested on 0.3% of en.wp, can you turn off the now-obsolete "5-star rating" version currently running on the remaining 99.7% of en.wp, please?

-Liam

Peace, love & metadata

On 23/12/2011, at 0:11, 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.
>> 
>> --
>> Tom Morris
>> <http://tommorris.org/>
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