Topic on Talk:Article feedback

Feedback is only worthwhile if it's used as the basis for future actions.

FOR INSTANCE:

despite all the feedback saying that the AFT is a bad idea, the WMF is not actually doing anything. It's collecting lots of feedback that says "BAD IDEA, GET RID OF IT", but nothing is actually being done. As above, so below: the AFT will simply squat on our articles like a sewage plant at the edge of a reservoir, and ratings people leave will never make any difference.

If people had to be logged in to rate articles, that might make a difference. But as is... no. It's pointless. DragonflySixtyseven 16:42, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

I agree, there are too many folks making decisions about rolling this out who have created it. This project is some person (or persons) baby and they are ignoring negative feedback, IMO.

It's also a little creepy how the project seems to have a life on its own. How it's forcefully implemented by its supporters without clear evidence of support.

Definitely creepy.

Isn't it still in a pilot? If so, then feedback during the pilot should be gathered for the length of the pilot and not be a reason for killing the pilot.

I also believe the axiom that more people complain than praise. Without being a statistician, I wonder what the numbers would show about the numbers of individuals using the AFT against those complaining against it. Would that be a data point worth considering by both sides?

Yes, the feedback about the feedback thing isn't really going anywhere. Some people don't like the real estate it takes up, how it's not centered, etc. I also think it's a cop-out to make people post here in order to (possibly) get responses from the dev(s). Killiondude 23:27, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Some people don't like the real estate it takes up, how it's not centered, These feature requests were reported on the following bugzilla tickets:

• Bug 29303 - Improve layout of ArticleFeedback tool
• Bug 29995 - Centralize AFT horizontally

Unfortunatly the bugzilla tickets are being ignored.

It seems those bugs have lower priority than the develepment of the next version.

Which would be totally OK if they would disable the current version.