Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Irrelevant/reply (43)

"'...votes by anonymous users is obviously accepted'" That is not exactly the case. Votes by anonymous users are registered with an explicit indication that they come from anonymous users in the field  (see more about the data being collected). So, if someone wants to take into account only ratings given by registered users, they can just filter those votes which are not marked like that. If someone else wants to compare the ratings from anons to the ratings from registered users, they can used the very same field from the tables to distinguish both kinds of ratings.

In other words, anyone looking into the data being collected by AFT can decide by itself if votes by anonymous users should be accepted or not for the analysis they are doing.

If the tool currently doesn't (and it currently doesn't) provide an interface for its users to select/compare/filter ratings depending on its prefered criteria (e.g. to get rid of anonymous users' ratings by [x] marking a small checkbox somewhere), such a feature should be requested on MediaWiki's bug tracker. This was requested for the dashboard (bug #30334), but something similar could also be requested for the rating form which is displayied on articles (anyone who wants to improve AFT can report this on bugzilla if it hasn't being already reported). Besides, interested users can also vote on open requests which they think really needs to be fixed.