On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Fabrice Florin <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > As many of you know, we have been testing an improved version of Article > Feedback v5 in two pilots on the English and French Wikipedias throughout > 2013. The main purpose of this experiment was to increase participation > on Wikipedia by inviting readers to leave comments on article pages. > > The French pilot just ended last month, providing informative results > about this experiment. In the final RfC we ran on the French > site<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/25_janvier_2014#Outil_de_retour_des_Lecteurs_:_r.C3.A9ponse_de_la_WMF> > (1), > about 45% of respondents wanted AFT5 removed > everywhere<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq_75_5y5sKWdDl0blpSbGRiS2ppRzlaaHZiV1dRMXc&usp=drive_web#gid=4>, > while 38% wanted to keep it an opt-in basis, and 10% on help pages only > (2); nearly everyone agreed it should not be on by default on all 40,000 > pilot pages, let alone on the entire French Wikipedia. Their concerns are > is consistent to what we heard from editors on the English and German > pilots: overall, a majority of editors do not find reader comments useful > enough to warrant the extra moderation work. > > Based on these pilot results, we recommend that Article Feedback be > removed from our two pilot sites at the end of the month, as outlined in > this report<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Report> > (3) > — since the tool is not welcome by a majority of editors, despite its > benefits to readers. > Fabrice, I commend you for authoring this report. It is honest, straightforward, and thoughtful -- and, I imagine, not easy to write. I think it demonstrates a high standard of professionalism with respect to feature development. It makes me proud to be a WMFer when I see us act with such self-awareness. It's an example I'll try to emulate.
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