Thread:Talk:Article feedback/31 May 2011/reply (12)

The schedule for the AFT rollout has been changed to July 12 (at the earliest) due to a dependency on another feature we're working on.

Jorm, Dario, Erik, others at WMF, and I have been following the feedback on this discussion closely. There are both supporters of the feature as well as people who disapprove of the feature. I don't have a precise ratio at this point.

There are legitimate concerns around number of issues, including potential gaming of the feature, the usefulness of the ratings/ratings categories, the dashboard algorithm, the visual layout of the tool etc. But the current implementation isn't the final implementation. As with any feature, we will analyze the data, get feedback from the community, conduct further user tests in an attempt to improve the feature over time. I would very much encourage everyone to take a look at the data to see how the feature is being used. For example, the raw ratings data can really help us identify gaming patterns so that we can develop features/filters to help manage the amount of gaming that takes place.

One thing that I would like to reiterate from Erik's previous post on the topic -- this is the first time we're engaging readers outside of the edit button. In my opinion, that's really important in light of the overall health trends we're observing. Readership keeps on climbing, yet these readers aren't becoming new contributors to Wikipedia. This feature is an opportunity to engage these readers in hopes that some of them will eventually become Wikipedia editors. Dario just did an updated analysis of the calls-to-action, and 17% of rates that get the edit call to action end up clicking the edit button. Out of those, 15% end up completing thee edit. I will ask him to post those results. Those are very encouraging numbers and suggest that a rating feature can really help draw in our readership. That's very, very cool.