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 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 20 August 2014 09:16, Quim Gil <[email protected]> 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 feedback on top of Talk pages), but maybe this could (with small or
>> not so small adaptation, I don't know) in the very specific context of a
>> beta feature page.
>> 
> 
> Speaking as someone who's been the product owner of a beta feature, I know
> I'd find a star rating for a beta feature totally useless. Star ratings
> don't tell you anything about *why* a user likes or dislikes a feature, so
> I have no information to go off.
> 
> In terms of getting feedback from comments, you're right that that's
> useful. But I can get that right now by going to the discussion page of the
> beta feature. Bear in mind that the Hovercards talk page on mediawiki.org
> was, for a while, the most active Flow page *across the entire cluster.*
> 
> So, I'm left a little unclear what the proposed improvement actually is.
> 
> Dan
> 
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> Dan Garry
> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
> Wikimedia Foundation
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