[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Sat Dec 24 11:38:52 UTC 2011

On 24 December 2011 11:23, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> So, to reply to Liam's point first - no, that's not the "real reason",
> that's something that I, personally, think should be taken into account as
> a secondary consideration; as said, I've emailed people asking for more
> concrete information on the data gathered, and so I can get the rationale
> "from the horse's mouth", as it were. It's christmas eve, so there's no
> guarantee that I'll get a response immediately, but I'll let you know when
> I do.

I liked the idea of AFTv4, having proposed such a thing as far back as
2005 (back when we were sure we were doing this to make a hard-copy or
DVD encyclopedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/1.0

The main problem with AFTv4 is that it appears no bugger uses it. Most
articles have no ratings, a few have one or two.

With v5, is the feedback readily and visibly available for article
editors to refer to? The bit where we ask directly "what's missing?"
looks potentially very useful.

- d.