Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/ArticleFeedbackDeployment
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Article feedback starts deploying on English Wikipedia
I am happy to announce that Wikimedia's editor engagement team has started a wider deployment of Article Feedback version 5 on the English Wikipedia.
This new version of Article Feedback provides a whole new way for readers to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It engages them to make suggestions about articles they are reading -- and invites editors to improve these articles, based on user feedback. Our research also suggests that this new tool can help readers become editors over time.
We are now testing this new tool on 3% of the English Wikipedia and plan to gradually increase its reach to 10% by the end of July 2012. After final testing and debugging in coming weeks, we expect to release Article Feedback on all English Wikipedia articles in early fall — then to other projects in the following months.
Based on our first test results, we now project over 2 million feedback posts per month when the tool is fully deployed on the English Wikipedia (on par with the total number of edits per month). In the process, we believe that article feedback can enable a new form of participation for Wikipedia readers, most of whom do not currently edit the encyclopedia.
To learn more about Article Feedback v5, watch this quick video tour, read our tutorial or check our help page.
We invite you to try out Article Feedback now, on one of these pages:
Please let us know what you think of this new tool. We welcome your questions and suggestions in the comments below — or on the Article Feedback Talk page.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Wikipedia community members who helped create Article feedback. Over the past nine months, we worked closely with many experienced editors and administrators to design features that serve the needs of readers and editors alike. This deployment is an important milestone for us all, and we look forward to more collaborations on future editor engagement projects.
We hope you find this new feature useful. We can't wait to see it used more widely on Wikipedia!
Fabrice Florin, Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation's Editor Engagement Team