Thread:Extension talk:ArticleFeedbackv5/Importance feedback already exists

The article access statistics give us a good view of what subjects the readers want to read about. Better use of that feedback should be given higher priority than this solicitation of additional feedback. It is easier to use and more representative. The first step should be to provide good and easy to use access to access statistics. Which were the most accessed articles in June 2012? Which were the recently most accessed articles in category C? Those editors who do want the heed the wishes of the readers would then be able to choose to add to the most read articles in the category the editor chooses.

Hopefully the instructions for Good Article already show what would be best to add. My impression is that they do. So the step one should be to make the most read articles the Good Articles. Really massively read articles should be made Featured Articles. Sad to say, the FA and GA communities are rather negative than positive toward the possibility of prioritizing articles that many people are interested in reading. This makes me wonder why we have this AFT process in the first place. I think though, that it would be very interesting to use it on GA's and FA's, to calibrate our criteria. --Ettrig (talk) 14:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)