Extension:ArticleFeedback


 * See Article feedback/Public Policy Pilot for more information.

The Article Feedback Tool is a Wikimedia Foundation project designed to engage Wikimedia readers in the assessment of article quality, one of the five priorities defined in the strategic plan. It is currently deployed on a subset of pages on the English Wikipedia.

This extension does not work with the current version of mediawiki 1.17! In the current (1.17) betaversion event handlers and the according api.php file are missing.

Installation
You also need to install:
 * Extension:SimpleSurvey (which requires Extension:PrefSwitch)
 * Extension:ClickTracking
 * Extension:EmailCapture

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

and run maintenance/update.php (...twice, because it has a bug.)

$wgArticleFeedbackCategories
An array containing titles of the categories (with _ instead of a spaces in the text) the pages must belong to have the rating widget added. Extension is "disabled" if this field is an empty array (as per default configuration) and the value of  is zero. E.g.:

$wgArticleFeedbackBlacklistCategories
Which categories the pages must not belong to have the rating widget added (with _ in text). E.g.:

$wgArticleFeedbackNamespaces
Only enable the tool in these namespaces. Default to  (defaults to   ).E.g.:

$wgArticleFeedbackLotteryOdds
Articles not categorized as one of the values in  can still have the tool psudo-randomly activated by applying the following odds to a lottery based on. The value can be a floating point number (percentage) in range of 0 - 100. Tenths of a percent are the smallest increments used. E.g.:

$wgArticleFeedbackDashboard
Whether to enable the dashboard page (disabled by default). E.g.:

Feedback
Open tickets in Wikimedia's BugZilla under the "ArticleFeedback" component in the "MediaWiki extensions" product.
 * Open ArticleFeedback tickets
 * Open UsabilityInitiative tickets about PrefSwitch / SimpleSurvey / ClickTracking