[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

Sat Dec 24 11:45:33 UTC 2011

The article feedback tool has nothing to do with approving edits, though.
Lets roll the conversation back; can you succinctly tell me how you
perceive the Article Feedback Tool, or what you know about it? That way
I'll know where you're coming from, and if there are any misunderstandings
which would explain why we're talking at cross-threads.

On 24 December 2011 11:43, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >
> > To reply to Jussi; I think we're uniformly confused as to what you think
> is
> > the link between an encyclopedia written by experts, and an encyclopedia
> > that asks average joes to provide comments on articles (other than the
> > "encyclopedia" bit, of course :-)). If you want this thread to go
> anywhere
> > productively on that issue, you should probably start by explaining what
> > you see as the link.
>
> That is very useful as an attempt at bridging the approaches to
> encyclopaedia building. So just for the benefit of people joining us
> lately, but keeping things to the issue at hand rather than getting
> diverted...
>
> There is no link.
>
> But there is a grasping hand that wants to link, and wikipedia
> does not do that for things that are not working.
>
> The whole idea of making a "structure" around how you "approve"
> (or "reify" or whatever) an edit is the nucleus of the issue. It has
> failed, it will fail and no amount of trying to push on a string will
> make it succeed.
>
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