Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool

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Article Feedback Tool

Developer(s)	Wikipedia
Type	Assessment (wiki content)
Website	Article Feedback @ Mediawiki (user help: Wikipedia:Article Feedback Tool)

The Article Feedback Tool is a Wikimedia survey for article feedback 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 tool is designed to address the following issues:

Phase 2 "Rate this page" GUI with several stars selected for each category. Before rating, blue stars are displayed for each criterion for which a user has already submitted a rating.

• 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 call to action for some assessors to improve the article.

Frequently Asked Questions
1 What is the "Article Feedback Tool"?
2 How do I use the tool?
3 How do I disable the tool?
4 What are the goals of this project?
5 How can I send comments and feedback on this project?
6 Where is it being rolled out?
7 How are pages selected for the Article Feedback Tool?
8 What are some anticipated obstacles?
9 Won't these ratings measure information a computer could easily predict?
10 Do you have plans to roll it out to a larger number of articles?
11 [Does] a high or low rating means that an article needs to be improved?
12 [Does] tool deal with multiple votes from the same account or IP...?
13 How will out-of-date ratings be handled?
14 How are the averages calculated?
15 What's the Article Feedback dashboard all about?
16 Is data generated by the Article Feedback Tool publicly available?
17 You didn't ask my permission to do this!

Functions

• Disabling – The "Rate this page" graphical user interface will not display on pages if a registered user has, at Preferences→Appearance, checked (and saved) the "⧼articlefeedback-disable-preference⧽" box.
• Viewing your rating: While logged into your account, simply open the wikipage and scroll to the end of the page. The blue stars at "Rate this page" indicate your most recent rating. A hyperlink to the tool is provided in the "Toolbox" section. To view your rating if it was submitted while not logged in, you must open the page from the same IP address. The tool is not available on every page, and ratings cannot be submitted or viewed on such pages.
• Changing your rating – If you have rated a page before, your previous rating is displayed whenever you view the page. You can change your rating at any time by simply rating the article again. To prevent ballot stuffing, the tool replaces your previous rating with your current one.
• "View all current page ratings" – This hyperlink replaces the "Rate this page GUI with the "Page ratings" GUI that displays statistics for the ratings submitted regarding the article. The "View page ratings" hyperlink requires internet access as the ratings are not pre-loaded when the article is accessed (the hyperlink displays even if there are "No ratings").
• Expert box – If ratings are submitted with the optional box checked for "I am highly knowledgeable about this topic", the tool will record the user's rating as coming from an expert. Resubmitting a rating without the box checked will remove the user's expert designation for the article.
• Expired ratings — Ratings automatically expire after 30 changes have been made to the page. If you view a page that you have previously rated, and the rating has changed, the tool will say that your previous ratings have expired and invite you to re-rate the article.

Feedback

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. The foundation hopes that the "Edit this page" and "Create an account" popups will encourage readers to become active editors.

Feedback about the tool

Comments about the tool and suggestions for its improvement can be left at Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool or at Talk:Article feedback (the latter is more often reviewed by developers). Proposal(s) for future development are at Article feedback/Extended review, while problems and feature requests can be reported directly on the bug tracker, which has a page for open requests.

History

The first phase of the feedback project began in 2010, with the Mediawiki page started on 9 July, the Workgroup formed on September 15 and a project page created on October 7. Various functional requirements were developed in conjunction with English Wikipedia editors via discussion (e.g., at Village Pumps) and announcements (in The Signpost & at Administrators' Noticeboards).

Phase 2 began on TBD, and a wikicategory for the project started on February 14, 2011. In July 2011, "What's this?" help function on the "Rate this page" box replaced the phase 2 "Please take a moment to rate this page" wording.

Surveys thousands of users in the summer of 2011 show that more than 90% of users believed the tool was useful, and slightly more than half believed that it positively affected the development of articles.