just wondering - are the ratings accompagnied with a time mark? (ie, can you see whether the rates changed when the page was improved without making a screenshot every day?)
Lodewijk 2010/9/22 aude <[email protected]> > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Guillaume Paumier > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Link to the original article: > > > > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ > > > > As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're > > launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback > > from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also > > inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a > > workgroup tasked with evaluating it. > > > > > The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily > > assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a > > Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools > > used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. > > We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking > > feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs > > improvement. > > > > The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public > > policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such > > as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. > > Board of Education/. > > > > Why does the feedback tool have no reference to the public policy > initiative? > > Casual users and readers will not know why they are seeing this tool in > some > articles, and may be curious. > > @aude > > > > Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with > > the community to build tools and features. As main users of the > > software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature > > performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article > > Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the > > user community can help us determine whether resources should be > > allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the > > users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought. > > > > More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers > > page [1]. > > > > If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're > > familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to > > participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, > > please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article > > assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's > > Assessment Team [4]. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Guillaume Paumier, > > on behalf of the Features Engineering team > > > > [1] > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot > > [3] > > > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup > > [4] > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Assessment#Project_Evaluation > > > > -- > > Guillaume Paumier > > Product Manager, Multimedia Usability > > Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
