Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Purpose of the tool?/reply

Hi Toshio,

these are not silly questions at all, thanks for asking. From the data we've collected so far we have reasons to believe the AFT has a lot of potential in two areas (quoting from the main doc): The latter is particularly promising: many readers who may be intimidated at the idea of discussing via talk pages are actually sending feedback on the article, how to improve it etc. via the AFT survey function. We will keep experimenting with this over the next months to see if it can work as an entry vector for new editors. We are analyzing the initial data internally and reporting the results in the research section, but we will release the full, anonymized data soon for the community and external researchers to participate in the discussion.
 * Quality assessment: it can help complement internal quality assessment of Wikipedia articles with a new source of data on quality, surfacing content of potentially very high or very low quality, and measuring change over time.
 * Reader engagement: it represents a way to encourage participation from the reader community.