Article feedback/Version 5

This is the home page for Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool.

Objectives
The set of implementation of the Article Feedback Tool (Versions 1-4) were focused on the dual objectives of participation and quality. The existing tool intends to provide a quantitative measurement of quality of articles as well as an on-ramp for contribution (i.e., editing). Based on the research conducted by WMF, the tool shows promise in being an on-ramp for contribution. As implemented, the tool appears to provide a reasonable measurement for quality along some dimensions (Completeness and Trustworthy), while other dimensions of quality (Objective and Well-written) tend to show a lower correlation with ratings.

Based on this research and the input from the Wikipedia editing community (examples are here and here), the next version of the tool will focus even more heavily on participation. Editors told us that it would be valuable if they knew what readers were looking for. Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool will focus on finding ways for Readers to contribute productively to building the encyclopedia.

For example, we will try a version where we ask readers "Did you find what you were looking for?" If the reader selects "no," we will ask them to fill out a form describing what they were looking for. Even if this reader doesn't become an editor, the hope is that they will contribute productively by letting the editing community know what was missing from the article. As we did in the first few phases of the project, we will also invite them to make the edit themselves.

Quality is still an important consideration and we will continue to test various ways of measuring quality. We may, however, do this implicitly. In the above example, the percentage of "yes"'s could be an indicator of article quality, even though we don't ask the reader to explicitly evaluate the quality of the article.

Feature Requirements
Feature Requirements may be found here.

Workgroup
Link to workgroup page