IIRC, a lot of the non-junk that ended up coming in via MobileFeedback actually was article error reports – but since these were being sent to our mailing list rather than put onwiki for editors to act on, they just died quietly.
I think this is a nifty feature! As Kaldari says, it's already a sidebar item on desktop Spanish and Russian wiki, and it looks like on Russian it's getting a bit of use: http://bitly.com/1tXjH9n (that's a special page with all the open error reports, and there are over 80 from the last 20 days). One cool thing about this feature on desktop is that there's a character limit – you can't submit reports that are too short. That's one thing you might consider adding to make this more useful/effective. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote: > No, there is no reliable test interface for it until (if) the code is > merged. > > Max asked how this is different than the old MobileFeedback feature that > was killed last year. My understanding is that that feature was killed > because the signal to noise ratio was too high. MobileFeedback asked users > for any kind of feedback and included options such as 'Technical problem', > 'Article feedback', and 'General'. This feature is ONLY for submitting > reports of errors in articles. I think that having a very specific purpose > assigned to the feature will improve the signal to noise ratio, as well as > having an interstitial that encourages the user to fix the error themselves > rather than reporting it. > > Kaldari > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a test instance anywhere for us to test this? >> >> Thanks, >> Dan >> >> On 29 December 2014 at 15:00, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks to finally having some time to write code during the holiday >>> slow-down, I put together a little feature prototype as a research project: >>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182082 >>> >>> The feature is just a simple interface for reporting errors on article >>> pages (similar to what exists on the Spanish and Russian desktop >>> Wikipedias). It adds a 'Report an error' button to the bottom of article >>> pages. When they click the button it encourages them to fix the error >>> themselves by editing the page. If they still want to submit the error, it >>> gives them a text input for doing so. The error report is then posted on >>> the article Talk Page, the overlay is closed, and the user is shown a toast >>> notification thanking them for their feedback. >>> >>> This is intended to be a lightwight form of microcontribution, but >>> without all the extra overhead of ArticleFeedback and without the >>> complexity of real talk pages (or Flow). Unfortunately, it can only be used >>> if the user is allowed to edit, so it will be of limited value on >>> non-Italian Wikipedias. >>> >>> Try it out and let me know what you think. >>> >>> Kaldari >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mobile-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dan Garry >> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Maryana Pinchuk Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org
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