That's basically my rationale, yup; thanks for explaining so clearly, Tom :P. Sleep deprivation makes me a poor writer.
On 23 December 2011 10:58, Tom Morris <t...@tommorris.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 02:41, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm NOT making the argument that the AFT is inherently bad (in fact I'm > really looking forward to the v5 of the tool to see how much good-quality > reader feedback we get, which will hopefully enliven a lot of very quiet > talkpages). I'm also NOT making the argument that the WMF needs to seek > some kind of mythical consensus for every single software change or new > feature test. What I AM saying is that now that v4 has been depreciated it > is both disingenuous to our readers and annoying to our community to have a > big box appear in such valuable real-estate simply because it will > eventually be replaced by a different, more useful, box. As you say, this > replacement is "still quite some time away" so it's a long time to leave a > placeholder on the world's 5th most visited website. > > > > From what I understood, part of the point of the article feedback tool > was that it increased the number of readers who edit - because they > click through the star ratings and then were invited to edit > (apparently, despite the phrase "the encyclopedia you can edit" and a > big link at the top of the article saying "Edit" and little links next > to each section that say "edit", and ten years of people in the news > media, academia and so on excoriating Wikipedia for being unreliable > precisely because anyone can edit it, there is some group who do not > know that you can edit Wikipedia). > > Even if we are no longer using the data collected from the previous > incarnation of the AFT (I've looked at a few articles I've written to > see what the AFTers think of it, and it is a minor curiosity), the > fact that it may be encouraging newbs to edit seems like a fairly good > reason for us to not jump the gun and switch it off prematurely. > > -- > Tom Morris > <http://tommorris.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l