Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Please stop/reply (5)

Maybe it is a good idea to move the ArticleFeedbackTool to the talkpages. The "normal" article feedback should also be on talkpages, not on the articles themselves...

People who give 4 stars only send the message: "I like the article this much". Instead we should ask them to tell us why they decided to choose that rating: what did they like about the article, what did they dislike, what should we improve to turn the 4-star rating into 5 stars? If we know that most people rate an article 4/5 for "completeness" that fact alone does not help us. We want to know what they felt was missing from the article, but we force them to use a 1-5 star system without a textbox where they can leave a comment.

I think we lose valuable information if we ask the people who rate the article to turn the pro's and con's list they have in their head into a rating of 1-5 stars: an actual textbox where they could give their opinion would be far more flexible and give them the opportunity to be a lot more specific and helpful. But we already have that, its a talkpage. So I suggest moving all the boxes to the talkpage. Ofcourse, this means there will be a bit less input and a lot less eyeballs on the article feedback tool. On the other hand I think you might get a bit less vandalism and more people who take the time to make a serious and informed rating.

There are little trashcans next to each rating thingy, that enable you to set that bar back to zero stars. But in order to finish you have to complete all 4 ratings! Ergo: the trashcan icons make no sense, since you can change the rating you have chosen before submitting. I think they are meant to improve usability, but instead they are useless and they clutter the interface.

Another problem is that it slows down page loading quite a bit. Maybe we can test it with software like Yslow.

The sentence "Your ratings have not been submitted yet" appears in green, a color that tells me the exact opposite of the message.

That sentence and the arrow icon in front of it should be removed imho (if we can not move all the article feedback boxes to the talkpage) because they make the box way too big and I think they do not have the positive effect they are supposed to have: the people who fail to see the huge blue button will also be unable to see the small green sentence, probably because they need to scroll down.

Its better to put the stars and the submit button next to eachother if that fits so that people see them at the same time when scrolling down.

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