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! Versions for 1.18 and later should appear in the usual extension repository.

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