Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Is this a positive or a negative?/reply (5)

"driving away some existing editors who don't like getting judged badly."

Before contributing to a wiki, every editor has to agree that his writing can be edited, used, and redistributed at will, and for other people to "edit" his existing text, they will probably need judge it beforehand (e.g. thinking "this phrase is not good" or "this should to be rewritten in a better way"). So, I don't think the editors of a public wiki should expect that the content they submit to the wiki is not going to be judged. If someone don't like this possibility, they are probably not going to edit anyway. I'm not sure the ArticleFeedback tool will make this worse. It may even improve it by letting the authors to receive some feedback about their work. This is particularly important for Wikibooks editors, since each wikibook usually has no more than two authors. I'm inferring this based on what I see on Portuguese Wikibooks. E.g.: The authors should not be fooling themselves thinking because they are the only authors of a text everyone has to like it. The tool would let them to know what the readers think about the text (and if some aspect of the text is poorly rated, they can try to reword the explanations, or to add more references, examples and so on...)
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