As you may know, we launched the Article Feedback tool a few weeks ago as part of the Public Policy Initiative. (See http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs for information about our motivation for building this tool.) The feature has been well received, with over 12,000 ratings submitted since the feature was launched on Sep 22. We've also received positive feedback from users, which is encouraging. Please see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Early_Data for some data from the project.
To increase our understanding of the value of these types of ratings, we'd like to find out whether the ratings (in aggregate or segmented) reflect actual changes in the quality of an article. The first part of this is to identify articles that are being worked on as part of the Public Policy Initiative and map the ratings against the revision history. Additionally, we want to observe ratings on a set of selected articles that are likely to undergo substantial revision in the near future. While the 2010 United States mid-term elections are behind us, there are many other types of articles that may fit the bill (e.g., upcoming movies, other elections, etc.). Right now we're targeting approximately 50 articles: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Additional_Pages We'd appreciate your additions and thoughts regarding articles that would make good test cases. And if you'd like to be part of the Article Feedback workgroup, please sign up on here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup Howie _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
