Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool
The Article Feedback Tool is a Wikimedia project designed to engage readers in the assessment of article quality, one of the five priorities defined in the strategic plan. It is based on the Foundation-developed Article Feedback MediaWiki extension and currently deployed on a subset of pages on the English Wikipedia.
The Article Feedback Tool is designed to address the following issues:
- Quality assessment – Article feedback complements internal quality assessment of Wikipedia articles with a new source of data on quality, highlighting content that is of very high or very low quality, and measuring change over time.
- Reader engagement – Article feedback encourages participation from readers, offering a new way for readers to become editors.
Changing your rating
You can change your rating at any time by simply rating the article again. The tool replaces your previous rating with your current one. To prevent ballot stuffing, only the most recent rating from any user is counted.
Feedback
On articles
The current version of the tool represents a starting point. The Wikimedia Foundation wants to encourage direct reader engagement as a good way to quickly elicit qualitative feedback and to make more readers aware that they can directly improve Wikipedia. We hope that this tool will help the readers in the Wikipedia community become active editors. See also a summary about the current calls to action.
On the tool
Because the tool was developed in conjunction with the editors of the English Wikipedia, it has been discussed in Village Pumps and other pages since its inception, and changes or expansions are always announced in The Signpost (search), at the Village Pumps (search), and/or at one of the Administrators' Noticeboards (search).
Surveys show that the tool has significant support in the user community, with 92.2% of the more than 2,100 users surveyed in July 2011 saying that the tool is useful.
Comments about the tool and suggestions for its improvement can be left on this page's talk page or in any of the discussions in these places, but comments left at the central MediaWiki page at mw:Talk:Article feedback have a higher likelihood of being seen quickly by the developers. Bugs and feature requests can also be reported directly on the bug tracker (see the open requests).
Disabling
Users who do not wish to see the Article Feedback Tool may hide it from their view by going to Preferences --> Appearance --> and checking the "⧼articlefeedback-disable-preference⧽" box. Then "Save" your preferences.