Article feedback/Extended review

Several groups and organizations have created ad-hoc tools to create and store quality reviews of Wikipedia content.

The Open wiki review system aims to provide a standard, customizable framework for such organizations to conduct open quality review of Wikipedia content, and integrate the results through the Quality indicators API.

This system is primarily intended for Wikipedia.

System type

 * What form does the system take?

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Ways to mitigate the weaknesses:

Features recommended independently of the choice:

Other possible features:

Authentication

 * How does a credentialed reviewer authenticate?

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Review submission

 * Who decides who reviews what?

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Ways to mitigate the weaknesses:

Features recommended independently of the choice:
 * Personal queue for pending reviews
 * E-mail notifications
 * API to submit reviews from an existing third-party review system

Other possible features:
 * Restriction of reviewable articles (depending on category, selection by review coordinator, etc.)

Review content

 * What is the content of the actual review?

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Ways to mitigate the weaknesses:

Features recommended independently of the choice:
 * Reviewers are invited to edit the page they're reviewing and fix the errors they notice.
 * Reviewers are invited to disclose conflicts of interest about the article itself (e.g. the reviewer has significantly edited the article) or the topic (e.g. the reviewer is a known critic of some of the points made); if their reviewer account is the same as, or linked to, their Wikipedia user account, they are prompted to disclose an article COI if they've edited it.

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Review publication, access and reuse

 * Where and how is the review accessible?

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Ways to mitigate the weaknesses:
 * Integrate reviews with the discussion system / LQT

Features recommended independently of the choice:
 * Public list of one's reviews
 * API to access the entirety of the reviews and their specifics
 * Notification to users who watch the reviewed page

Other possible features:
 * Comments on reviews