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 MediaWiki 1.17 or earlier!

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 of category titles (using '_'s instead of spaces). Pages in any of these categories will have the rating widget shown. If empty (the default), the extension is effectively disabled, depending on the value of. 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 rating widget in these namespaces (regardless of the category of the page). Defaults to  (defaults to   ). e.g.:

$wgArticleFeedbackLotteryOdds
Articles not categorized as one of the values in  can still have the rating widget 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, 0 being always off, 100 being always on. Tenths of a percent are the smallest increments used. e.g.:

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

$wgArticleFeedbackRatings
A good way to configure the categories is configurable 'just fine' using $wgArticleFeedbackRatings and corresponding entries in the article_feedback_ratings table.

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