Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-07-18/News and notes

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"Article Feedback" - I hope that it can be stopped from entering on plwiki (In the worst case it can be hidden in all skins) Bulwersator (talk) 07:25, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"one of the benefits of the tool is its increase in the number of people editing" -> "Once users have successfully submitted a rating, a randomly selected subset of them are shown an invitation to edit the page. Of the users that were invited to edit, 17% attempted to edit the page." - so maybe invitations caused this effect? Bulwersator (talk) 07:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah! I've always been a fan of article feedback. We'll have it on every article in no time. --Nathan2055 ^talk 17:19, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase "attempted to edit" is a little worrying. Rich Farmbrough, 09:12, 21 July 2011 (UTC).[reply]

I've come across this before, I think it means we have stats on people who click on edit, but not everyone who does so successfully saves. For busy articles such as brand new ones that could mean edit conflicts, popular wisdom has it that a large proportion off those who click edit but don't save are thrown by the html. Some of course will simply be defeated by the slow connection speeds, particularly in parts of the world where Wikipedia access is slowest. I hope quite a few are dissuaded by the editfilters, and of course some people will have second thoughts and decide that maybe the existing wording is the least inelegant way to express something. I don't think we should expect that every time someone clicks edit they will go on to click save, but its good to see that for this group it is a large majority. Ϣere SpielChequers 12:26, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Media coverage of the feedback tool: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1030099--you-can-now-rate-wikipedia-entries-not-everyone-is-pleased?bn=1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.88.10.35 (talk) 11:12, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]