[Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Quim Gil
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or was it specifically designed for extension rating? I'm not sure how related is this,

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Dan Garry
On 20 August 2014 09:16, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not sure how related is this, but Article Feedback allowed user rating + comment, and it was deployed in Wikimedia servers. Editors didn't find it that useful for regular articles (too much extra work processing too little value

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Derk-Jan Hartman
I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on feedback statements. I think that might be a direction worth exploring. A low barrier like that might help bring a more complete picture of sentiment on problems and ideas. DJ On 20 aug. 2014, at 19:08, Dan Garry

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread Jon Robson
I believe Flow is going to or could be changed to solve this issue of upvoting comments. I was more interested in hypothetically if it was possible, I hadn't really thought too much about whether it would be useful or not. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread David Gerard
As a MediaWiki tarball user, I'd *love* something to rate extensions - even to show if anyone actually uses it and cares. On 20 August 2014 19:14, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on feedback

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread svetlana
Quim Gil wrote: On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or was it specifically designed for extension rating? I'm not

Re: [Wikitech-l] User rating for beta features (was Re: Help in modifying Template:Extension to support user ratings)

2014-08-20 Thread svetlana
Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: I fully agree with Dan on that. I'd be much more interested in +/- votes on feedback statements. AFv5 already had this feature IIRC, but I think it lacked some way to categorise and structurise messages, and to identify users who have a habit of posting rubbish