Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Three requests for Fabrice (new project lead)/reply (6)

Dear Wittylama and WhatamIdoing, thank you so much for your kind welcome and good recommendations!

We are just getting started on incremental designs for the next version of the Article Feedback Tool, so your comments are extremely helpful at this early stage. Our latest wireframes are shown in this from Oct. 11th, as stated in the previous thread. I expect to post another set of wireframes in the next 24 hours, and keep iterating every few days, based on feedback from the Wikimedia community.

I agree with Wittylama's request that we emphasize qualitative feedback over ratings, for all the reasons he stated. As I pointed out earlier on this talk page, our current direction is to de-emphasize the ratings in the next version of the AFT, and to invite readers instead to offer specific suggestions for improvement (so their feedback can be more constructive and useful to editors). To that end, we're looking at services like GetSatisfaction.com for inspiration.

Your second point is also well taken, that a single aggregated rating is not nearly as useful as a graph showing how that rating has evolved over time. Given that we are de-emphasizing ratings, this timeline feature may not be implemented immediately, but is definitely something I think we should do.

I will respond to your third point in the next sub-section, to address WhatamIdoing's observations.

Thanks again for all your invaluable feedback. I really appreciate the opportunity to develop this project together, as a community!