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Benutzer:Fabrice Florin

2013-11-20T23:09:33Z

Fabrice Florin: Filled in my personal German user profile (sorry it's in English, but I don't speak German -- though I may be able to contribute some photos down the line).

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I first joined Wikipedia in 2006 -- and now work as product manager for the [[w:en:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]], where I create new tools to help readers and editors contribute more effectively on Wikipedia. See my [[User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)|Wikimedia staff profile]] for more info on my work for the foundation.

I am the founder of [http://newstrust.net/ NewsTrust.net], a nonprofit social news network promoting quality journalism, which was recently acquired by the Poynter Institute. I was elected an Ashoka Fellow for that work as social entrepreneur. My previous ventures include: [http://handtap.com Handtap], a wireless content service for mobile phones; [http://shockwave.com shockwave.com], a web entertainment site at Macromedia; [http://web.nmc.org/pachy/goldenage/ Apple Computer's Multimedia Lab], a new media R&D group; and [http://videowest.us Videowest], a producer of rock journalism for ABC, MTV and public TV. I also produced [http://handtap.com/hackers/ "Hackers"], a documentary about the heroes of the computer revolution -- and earned four patents for my interactive TV work at Apple.

I look forward to collaborating with you and other Wikipedians to help engage readers to participate thoughtfully on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, feel free to email me directly at fflorin-at-wikimedia-dot-org . You are also welcome to follow me on [http://twitter.com/#!/fabriceflorin Twitter], [http://gplus.to/fflorin Google+] or [http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabriceflorin LinkedIn].

Note: Although I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, contributions under this account are exclusively in my individual, personal capacity.

===Work===
[[File:Making-Wikipedia-Better-Video.theora.ogv|thumb|'''How can we make Wikipedia better?''' Click 'Play' to watch this short video slide show.]]
Here are some of the first projects I am working on -- I will expand this list as I take on more assignments:

* [[mw:Multimedia|Multimedia]] - a new set of media tools for Wikipedia
* [[mw:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer|Media Viewer]] - a tool that shows larger images on articles
* [[mw:About_Beta_Features|Beta Features]] - a new way to test software before it's released
* [[m:Roundtables|Roundtables]] - community discussions with WMF product teams
* [[w:Wikipedia:Notifications|Notifications (Echo)]] - a modern notification system for Wikipedia
* [[w:Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks|Thanks]] - a quick way to give positive feedback for helpful edits
* [[mw:Page Curation|Page Curation]] - a tool to enhance the new page patrol process
* [[mw:Article feedback/Version 5|Article Feedback Tool]] - a new way to contribute to Wikipedia
* [[w:Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement|Editor Engagement]] - our overall work on engaging users

 
===Videos===
At Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, I asked some of the participants for ideas on how to make Wikipedia better.

Here are their suggestions, which can be viewed either as a short video slide-show (see thumbnail to the right) -- or [[w:User:Fabrice_Florin/Making_Wikipedia_Better#Photo_Gallery|in this photo gallery]].

 
===Photos===

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''' 
Here are some of the photos I took for [http://wikilovesmonuments.org Wiki Loves Monuments], a photo contest organized to add pictures of historic landmarks on Wikipedia. Most of my pictures so far are from Marin County, California, where I live.

Check out [[w:User:Fabrice_Florin/Wiki_Loves_Monuments|this special page with all my photos for Wiki Loves Monuments]].

 
'''Fort Baker, Sausalito''' 
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File:Fort-Baker-Sausalito-Florin-WLM-01.jpg
File:Fort-Baker-Sausalito-Florin-WLM-02.jpg
File:Fort-Baker-Sausalito-Florin-WLM-03.jpg
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</gallery>

 
'''Fort Barry, Marin Headlands''' 
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File:Fort-Barry-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-01.jpg
File:Fort-Barry-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-02.jpg
File:Fort-Barry-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-03.jpg
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</gallery>

 
'''Fort Cronkhite, Marin Headlands''' 
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File:Fort-Cronkhite-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-01.jpg
File:Fort-Cronkhite-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-02.jpg
File:Fort-Cronkhite-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-03.jpg
File:Fort-Cronkhite-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-04.jpg
File:Fort-Cronkhite-Marin-Headlands-Florin-WLM-05.jpg
</gallery>

 
'''Old Mill Park, Mill Valley''' 
<gallery perrow=5 widths=120px heights=90px>
File:Old-Mill-Park-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-1.jpg
File:Old-Mill-Park-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-2.jpg ‎
File:Old-Mill-Park-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-3.jpg ‎
File:Old-Mill-Park-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-4.jpg ‎
File:Old-Mill-Park-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-5.jpg
</gallery>

 
'''Outdoor Art Center, Mill Valley''' 
<gallery perrow=5 widths=120px heights=90px>
File:Outdoor-Art-Center-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-01.jpg ‎
File:Outdoor-Art-Center-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-02.jpg ‎
File:Outdoor-Art-Center-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-03.jpg ‎
File:Outdoor-Art-Center-Mill-Valley-Florin-WLM-04.jpg ‎
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</gallery>

 
These are just sample photos from my full collection. For more pictures, check out [[w:User:Fabrice_Florin/Wiki_Loves_Monuments|this special page with all my photos for Wiki Loves Monuments]].

Enjoy these first pictures. More to come!

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[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation staff]]

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Feedback-Richtlinien

2012-07-17T18:12:58Z

Fabrice Florin: /* Learn more */ Added the video tour to the list of options for learning more about Article Feedback - also 'wikified' the links ;o)

Help improve Wikipedia with our new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]]! We invite you to post suggestions about articles you read, so we can improve them together.

Here are some do's and don'ts about posting feedback on Wikipedia. The following guidelines will help you decide what to include in your posts -- and what to leave out. Your use of the article feedback tool is subject to these guidelines and Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

===Tips on posting feedback===
To make your feedback more helpful, we suggest you follow these simple rules:
* Be civil: When writing comments on WIkipedia, please be considerate and respectful of others.
* Focus on the facts: We aim to improve articles based on verifiable facts, not rumors or opinions.
* Cite your sources: We welcome links to factual evidence from credible and knowledgeable sources.
* Be specific: Write about specific parts of the article, with detailed suggestions for improvement.
* Keep it short: Your post should be concise, with no more than a thousand words.
* Full disclosure: If you are an author or subject of this article, please disclose this clearly in your post.

===What to avoid===
Community editors may flag or remove posts that include any of the following:
* Irrelevant, repetitive, or "nonsense" comments;
* Comments containing obscenities, swear words, or offensive content;
* Comments that defame the subject of an article, its editors, or any other individuals;
* Comments that contain private phone numbers, email or street addresses, or other non-public personally identifying information;
* Advertisements, promotional or commercial materials, spam or commercial solicitations;
* Repeated posts that make the same point excessively, or posts written in all-caps or without any punctuation;
* Links to unrelated websites -- especially from spammers or sites that host illegal content;
* Programming code other than links (such as CSS, HTML or JavaScript);
* Anything else that [[m:The Wikipedia Community|the community of Wikipedia editors]], at its sole discretion, decides is inappropriate;
* Anything not explicitly or implicitly listed here that violates Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

Note: Special software filters are programmed to reject or flag comments that violate these guidelines. If you get a warning, please revise your post as requested.

Also note that the Wikimedia Foundation reserves the right to remove feedback when, as determined in its sole discretion: 1) it is required by law; or 2) it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or property of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users, or the public; or the feedback violates the Terms of Use.

===Learn more===
* For a quick overview of this tool, watch this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Video|video tour]]
* For more tips on how to post feedback, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help|help page]].
* To find out more about editing on Wikipedia, read this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|walkthrough tutorial]].
* To learn more about this project, visit the [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool v5]] (AFT5) overview page.

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Benutzer

2012-07-11T01:02:06Z

Fabrice Florin: Added a clearer caption below the feedback form graphics, to explain what they mean.

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumb|thumbtime=1:00.00|Watch this quick video tour of Article feedback for editors]]

==Article Feedback form==

===What is this feedback tool?===
[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is shown at the bottom of some article pages]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way for readers to contribute productively on Wikipedia. This tool invites our readers to leave feedback about articles to help editors improve them. AFT is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation‘s [[Wikipedia:Editor engagement|Editor Engagement team]].

The Article Feedback Tool includes a feedback form shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a feedback page listing all comments for an article, as shown in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Article-Feedback-Map.png this diagram]. Read more about these features below.

===Where can I find this tool?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form starts with a simple question, then offers a comment box.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?" and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Wikipedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some sample articles where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

===How do you leave feedback?===
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors know if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

===What kind of feedback is encouraged?===
Contributors are invited to post helpful feedback: suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage people to be civil, focus on facts and keep it short -- and avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

===Who can use this feedback tool?===
Anyone can post feedback on articles with the new AFT5 tool (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can also mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described below.

===Is this tool useful?===
Contributors are encouraged to leave helpful suggestions for improvement, and a good portion of that feedback appears useful to Wikipedians who tested the tool. Posting feedback also leads more people to become editors, based on the Wikimedia Foundation's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Stage_3/Conversion_and_newcomer_quality research]. This makes it a promising on-ramp for new editor engagement.

===Why was I not consulted about this tool?===
The Wikimedia Foundation has made a particular effort to reach out to editors about this project. The new Article Feedback tool has been discussed extensively in the [[WP:PUMP|Village Pump]], the [[Wikipedia:Community portal|Community Portal]], the [[WP:SIGNPOST|Signpost]] and through over a dozen [[m:IRC office hours]] sessions, as well as in a [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|dedicated discussion venue]]. Editors who had previously been supportive or critical of the old versions were directly contacted and asked to take part in development. Many features of the new tool were proposed by editors, not developers.

==Feedback page==

===What is the feedback page?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Editors view.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Editors.]]

The feedback page is where reader feedback for a particular article is listed, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article Feedback 5|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on "View feedback" at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the feedback page for [[Talk:San Francisco|San Francisco]]. (Tech note: feedback pages in our test sample can be accessed by typing Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/articletitle into the search bar).

===What can I do on the feedback page?===
The feedback page lets editors see what readers think about a given Wikipedia article. If you find a useful post that can help improve this article, please mark it as helpful, as described below. And if you find inappropriate feedback, please flag it as abuse. Special tools in the right sidebar enable editors to "feature" a post or “mark it as resolved” (read more below). You can use these tools to surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

===How can I filter the feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Monitors filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Select the filter that best suits your needs.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment it is most useful for patrolling to [[#What_can_I_do_with_inappropriate_feedback.3F|eliminate inappropriate]] and [[#How_can_I_mark_helpful_feedback.3F|highlight useful]] feedback. A special drop-down menu called “More filters” provides even more ways to filter the list by type: selecting a filter will refresh the list, showing only posts matching that filter (e.g.: featured, flagged or resolved). For any of these filters, you can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

===How can I mark helpful feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, please mark it as helpful by clicking on the "thumbs-up" icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the "thumbs-down" icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to other editors.

===How can I feature the most helpful feedback?===
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[[File:AFT FAQ Editors Feature.png|right|thumb|420px|Feature a post.]]

If you find a particularly useful feedback post, you can promote it with a special editor tool: "Feature this post." This tool is located in the grey toolbar on the right, which is only available to [[WP:AUTOCONFIRMED|autoconfirmed editors]]. Featuring a post moves it to the top of the "Most relevant" list, which makes it a lot more visible to other editors.

===What else can I do with useful feedback?===
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If you have some expertise on this topic, go ahead and incorporate the feedback! :) Once you have made your edit for a featured feedback post, click on "Mark as resolved" in the toolbar on the right. This lets you indicate to other editors that the comment has been addressed. (Tech tip: if the post was not featured yet, you can hit “feature this post” and then "mark as resolved").

===What can I do with inappropriate feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Flag as abuse.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, please report it by clicking on the "Flag as abuse" link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Administrators can then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

===How can I get more information about a post?===
To find out more about a feedback post, click on ‘Details’ next to that post’s time stamp. This lets you see a "permalink" page for that post, with some useful information about its author, its creation date and relevance score. You can also click on ‘View activity’ in the grey toolbar to see past actions taken by other reviewers and read their notes about this post. These details are only shown to editors, not to readers.

===How can I see feedback from across Wikipedia?===
Besides feedback pages for each individual article, there is also a [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5|central feedback page]] that displays all of the feedback for all of the articles in our test sample -- and soon all of Wikipedia. This central page can be used for general-purpose patrolling, to deal with both inappropriate posts that need hiding, and useful ones that should be brought to the attention of article writers.

===Who can moderate feedback pages?===
Editors have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on feedback pages. Editors like you can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of "monitors" ([[WP:ADMIN|admins]], [[WP:ROLLBACK|rollbackers]] and [[WP:REVIEWER|reviewers]]) can [[WP:REVDEL|hide inappropriate posts]], and an even smaller group of [[WP:OVERSIGHT|oversighters]] can permanently remove feedback from public view.

==Troubleshooting==

===The tool isn’t working properly===
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison]] at {{nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

===What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?===
[[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Our Community Liaison]] is happy to answer any questions on his talkpage; alternately, you can email him or [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|discuss it on the AFT5 talkpage]].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-07-11T01:00:14Z

Fabrice Florin: Added a clearer caption below the feedback form graphics, to explain what they mean.

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-Readers-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumb|thumbtime=1:00.00|Watch this quick video tour of Article feedback]]

==Article Feedback form==

==What is this feedback tool?==

[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|This feedback form is shown at the bottom of some articles on Wikipedia]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

At the bottom of each article you can find a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] to provide suggestions on how to improve the article. You can access all the comments provided by users at the [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]], as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|diagram]]. Read more about these features below.

==Where can I find this tool?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form starts with a simple questions, then offers a comment box.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?” and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles test sample] where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new AFT5 version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

==What kind of feedback should I give?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you. You can view this feedback page by clicking on 'Talk' at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View reader suggestions' at the top right of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details on the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Change filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Combine filters and sorting to get the desired content.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Readers Flag.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 

=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

= Recommended guidelines for monitors =
=== What you should do ===
* Feature specific tips and detailed ways to improve an article - e.g. "Please add to the article [[Angry Birds]] that the app uses [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] to save its settings."
* Mark comments as resolved comments if they have been resolved, and possibly link the diff of the resolution.
* Hide unmeaningful spam - e.g. "Hi, I like Airbus 380s" on the page [[Golf]].
* Hide [[profanity]] - e.g. "F**k you stupid WikiPedianz".
* Hide foreign languages unless you know what it means - e.g. “你好，谢谢维基百科！”.
* Hide (and request oversight) of comments containing emails and/or phone numbers. - e.g. "Email me at fdouglas@douglasindustri.es plz 4 more info and my phone # is 123-456-7890".
* Hide (and request oversight) of libelous comments containing insults and fake facts towards an organization or person. - e.g. "Justin Bieber broke up with Selena Gomez' wife."
* Hide pointless opinions - e.g. "I think [[Netflix]] should be bought by [[Blockbuster LLC|Blockbuster]]"

=== What you should not do ===
* Hide useful feedback in all caps - e.g. "YOU SHOULD PUT ON THERE THAT RUNESCAPE ADDED MICROTRANSACTIONS."
* Request oversight on profanity, foreign languages you cannot understand, unmeaningful spam, profanity and pointless opinions.
* Hide useful comments.
* Feature spam comments, profane comments, foreign language comments (no matter what), and pointless opinions.
* Hide comments that you do not like.
* Feature comments only because you like them.
* Mark comments as resolved comments that weren't resolved.
* Unfeature comments after they are resolved.
* Mark comments as resolved comments if you want to "hide" it somehow.

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-07-11T00:55:54Z

Fabrice Florin: Moved the reader/editor diagram to a link, to reduce clutter - added a note to watch the video tour

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-Readers-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumb|thumbtime=1:00.00|Watch this quick video tour]]

==Article Feedback form==

==What is this feedback tool?==

[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 6]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

At the bottom of each article you can find a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] to provide suggestions on how to improve the article. You can access all the comments provided by users at the [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]], as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|diagram]]. Read more about these features below.

==Where can I find this tool?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is located at the bottom of some article pages.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?” and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles test sample] where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new AFT5 version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

==What kind of feedback should I give?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you. You can view this feedback page by clicking on 'Talk' at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View reader suggestions' at the top right of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details on the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Change filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Combine filters and sorting to get the desired content.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Readers Flag.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 

=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

= Recommended guidelines for monitors =
=== What you should do ===
* Feature specific tips and detailed ways to improve an article - e.g. "Please add to the article [[Angry Birds]] that the app uses [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] to save its settings."
* Mark comments as resolved comments if they have been resolved, and possibly link the diff of the resolution.
* Hide unmeaningful spam - e.g. "Hi, I like Airbus 380s" on the page [[Golf]].
* Hide [[profanity]] - e.g. "F**k you stupid WikiPedianz".
* Hide foreign languages unless you know what it means - e.g. “你好，谢谢维基百科！”.
* Hide (and request oversight) of comments containing emails and/or phone numbers. - e.g. "Email me at fdouglas@douglasindustri.es plz 4 more info and my phone # is 123-456-7890".
* Hide (and request oversight) of libelous comments containing insults and fake facts towards an organization or person. - e.g. "Justin Bieber broke up with Selena Gomez' wife."
* Hide pointless opinions - e.g. "I think [[Netflix]] should be bought by [[Blockbuster LLC|Blockbuster]]"

=== What you should not do ===
* Hide useful feedback in all caps - e.g. "YOU SHOULD PUT ON THERE THAT RUNESCAPE ADDED MICROTRANSACTIONS."
* Request oversight on profanity, foreign languages you cannot understand, unmeaningful spam, profanity and pointless opinions.
* Hide useful comments.
* Feature spam comments, profane comments, foreign language comments (no matter what), and pointless opinions.
* Hide comments that you do not like.
* Feature comments only because you like them.
* Mark comments as resolved comments that weren't resolved.
* Unfeature comments after they are resolved.
* Mark comments as resolved comments if you want to "hide" it somehow.

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Benutzer

2012-07-11T00:50:57Z

Fabrice Florin: Moved the reader/editor diagram to a link, to reduce clutter - removed draft notice

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumb|thumbtime=1:00.00|Watch this quick video tour for editors]]

==Article Feedback form==

===What is this feedback tool?===
[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 6]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way for readers to contribute productively on Wikipedia. This tool invites our readers to leave feedback about articles to help editors improve them. AFT is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation‘s [[Wikipedia:Editor engagement|Editor Engagement team]].

The Article Feedback Tool includes a feedback form shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a feedback page listing all comments for an article, as shown in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Article-Feedback-Map.png this diagram]. Read more about these features below.

===Where can I find this tool?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is located at the bottom of article pages.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?" and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Wikipedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some sample articles where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

===How do you leave feedback?===
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors know if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

===What kind of feedback is encouraged?===
Contributors are invited to post helpful feedback: suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage people to be civil, focus on facts and keep it short -- and avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

===Who can use this feedback tool?===
Anyone can post feedback on articles with the new AFT5 tool (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can also mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described below.

===Is this tool useful?===
Contributors are encouraged to leave helpful suggestions for improvement, and a good portion of that feedback appears useful to Wikipedians who tested the tool. Posting feedback also leads more people to become editors, based on the Wikimedia Foundation's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Stage_3/Conversion_and_newcomer_quality research]. This makes it a promising on-ramp for new editor engagement.

===Why was I not consulted about this tool?===
The Wikimedia Foundation has made a particular effort to reach out to editors about this project. The new Article Feedback tool has been discussed extensively in the [[WP:PUMP|Village Pump]], the [[Wikipedia:Community portal|Community Portal]], the [[WP:SIGNPOST|Signpost]] and through over a dozen [[m:IRC office hours]] sessions, as well as in a [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|dedicated discussion venue]]. Editors who had previously been supportive or critical of the old versions were directly contacted and asked to take part in development. Many features of the new tool were proposed by editors, not developers.

==Feedback page==

===What is the feedback page?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Editors view.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Editors.]]

The feedback page is where reader feedback for a particular article is listed, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article Feedback 5|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on "View feedback" at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the feedback page for [[Talk:San Francisco|San Francisco]]. (Tech note: feedback pages in our test sample can be accessed by typing Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/articletitle into the search bar).

===What can I do on the feedback page?===
The feedback page lets editors see what readers think about a given Wikipedia article. If you find a useful post that can help improve this article, please mark it as helpful, as described below. And if you find inappropriate feedback, please flag it as abuse. Special tools in the right sidebar enable editors to "feature" a post or “mark it as resolved” (read more below). You can use these tools to surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

===How can I filter the feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Monitors filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Select the filter that best suits your needs.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment it is most useful for patrolling to [[#What_can_I_do_with_inappropriate_feedback.3F|eliminate inappropriate]] and [[#How_can_I_mark_helpful_feedback.3F|highlight useful]] feedback. A special drop-down menu called “More filters” provides even more ways to filter the list by type: selecting a filter will refresh the list, showing only posts matching that filter (e.g.: featured, flagged or resolved). For any of these filters, you can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

===How can I mark helpful feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, please mark it as helpful by clicking on the "thumbs-up" icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the "thumbs-down" icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to other editors.

===How can I feature the most helpful feedback?===
{{anchor|feature|unfeature}}
[[File:AFT FAQ Editors Feature.png|right|thumb|420px|Feature a post.]]

If you find a particularly useful feedback post, you can promote it with a special editor tool: "Feature this post." This tool is located in the grey toolbar on the right, which is only available to [[WP:AUTOCONFIRMED|autoconfirmed editors]]. Featuring a post moves it to the top of the "Most relevant" list, which makes it a lot more visible to other editors.

===What else can I do with useful feedback?===
{{anchor|resolved|unresolved}}
If you have some expertise on this topic, go ahead and incorporate the feedback! :) Once you have made your edit for a featured feedback post, click on "Mark as resolved" in the toolbar on the right. This lets you indicate to other editors that the comment has been addressed. (Tech tip: if the post was not featured yet, you can hit “feature this post” and then "mark as resolved").

===What can I do with inappropriate feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Flag as abuse.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, please report it by clicking on the "Flag as abuse" link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Administrators can then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

===How can I get more information about a post?===
To find out more about a feedback post, click on ‘Details’ next to that post’s time stamp. This lets you see a "permalink" page for that post, with some useful information about its author, its creation date and relevance score. You can also click on ‘View activity’ in the grey toolbar to see past actions taken by other reviewers and read their notes about this post. These details are only shown to editors, not to readers.

===How can I see feedback from across Wikipedia?===
Besides feedback pages for each individual article, there is also a [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5|central feedback page]] that displays all of the feedback for all of the articles in our test sample -- and soon all of Wikipedia. This central page can be used for general-purpose patrolling, to deal with both inappropriate posts that need hiding, and useful ones that should be brought to the attention of article writers.

===Who can moderate feedback pages?===
Editors have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on feedback pages. Editors like you can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of "monitors" ([[WP:ADMIN|admins]], [[WP:ROLLBACK|rollbackers]] and [[WP:REVIEWER|reviewers]]) can [[WP:REVDEL|hide inappropriate posts]], and an even smaller group of [[WP:OVERSIGHT|oversighters]] can permanently remove feedback from public view.

==Troubleshooting==

===The tool isn’t working properly===
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison]] at {{nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

===What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?===
[[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Our Community Liaison]] is happy to answer any questions on his talkpage; alternately, you can email him or [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|discuss it on the AFT5 talkpage]].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Benutzer

2012-07-09T17:32:04Z

Fabrice Florin: Added screencast video tour for editors.

{{Notice| Use [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5]]/Article_name to view feedback. E.g., [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/Facebook]].}}

''This page is a '''draft'''. Content will be updated when time permits.''

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumbtime=1:00.00|Article Feedback - Video Tour for Editors]]

[[File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Map]]

==Article Feedback form==

===What is this feedback tool?===
[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 6]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way for readers to contribute productively on Wikipedia. This tool invites our readers to leave feedback about articles to help editors improve them. AFT is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation‘s [[Wikipedia:Editor engagement|Editor Engagement team]].

The Article Feedback Tool includes a feedback form shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a feedback page listing all comments for an article, as shown in this system map. Read more about these features below.

===Where can I find this tool?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is located at the bottom of the page.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?" and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Wikipedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some sample articles where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

===How do you leave feedback?===
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors know if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

===What kind of feedback is encouraged?===
Contributors are invited to post helpful feedback: suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage people to be civil, focus on facts and keep it short -- and avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

===Who can use this feedback tool?===
Anyone can post feedback on articles with the new AFT5 tool (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can also mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described below.

===Is this tool useful?===
Contributors are encouraged to leave helpful suggestions for improvement, and a good portion of that feedback appears useful to Wikipedians who tested the tool. Posting feedback also leads more people to become editors, based on the Wikimedia Foundation's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Stage_3/Conversion_and_newcomer_quality research]. This makes it a promising on-ramp for new editor engagement.

===Why was I not consulted about this tool?===
The Wikimedia Foundation has made a particular effort to reach out to editors about this project. The new Article Feedback tool has been discussed extensively in the [[WP:PUMP|Village Pump]], the [[Wikipedia:Community portal|Community Portal]], the [[WP:SIGNPOST|Signpost]] and through over a dozen [[m:IRC office hours]] sessions, as well as in a [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|dedicated discussion venue]]. Editors who had previously been supportive or critical of the old versions were directly contacted and asked to take part in development. Many features of the new tool were proposed by editors, not developers.

==Feedback page==

===What is the feedback page?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Editors view.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Editors.]]

The feedback page is where reader feedback for a particular article is listed, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article Feedback 5|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on "View feedback" at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the feedback page for [[Talk:San Francisco|San Francisco]]. (Tech note: feedback pages in our test sample can be accessed by typing Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/articletitle into the search bar).

===What can I do on the feedback page?===
The feedback page lets editors see what readers think about a given Wikipedia article. If you find a useful post that can help improve this article, please mark it as helpful, as described below. And if you find inappropriate feedback, please flag it as abuse. Special tools in the right sidebar enable editors to "feature" a post or “mark it as resolved” (read more below). You can use these tools to surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

===How can I filter the feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Monitors filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Select the filter that best suits your needs.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment it is most useful for patrolling to [[#What_can_I_do_with_inappropriate_feedback.3F|eliminate inappropriate]] and [[#How_can_I_mark_helpful_feedback.3F|highlight useful]] feedback. A special drop-down menu called “More filters” provides even more ways to filter the list by type: selecting a filter will refresh the list, showing only posts matching that filter (e.g.: featured, flagged or resolved). For any of these filters, you can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

===How can I mark helpful feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, please mark it as helpful by clicking on the "thumbs-up" icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the "thumbs-down" icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to other editors.

===How can I feature the most helpful feedback?===
{{anchor|feature|unfeature}}
[[File:AFT FAQ Editors Feature.png|right|thumb|420px|Feature a post.]]

If you find a particularly useful feedback post, you can promote it with a special editor tool: "Feature this post." This tool is located in the grey toolbar on the right, which is only available to [[WP:AUTOCONFIRMED|autoconfirmed editors]]. Featuring a post moves it to the top of the "Most relevant" list, which makes it a lot more visible to other editors.

===What else can I do with useful feedback?===
{{anchor|resolved|unresolved}}
If you have some expertise on this topic, go ahead and incorporate the feedback! :) Once you have made your edit for a featured feedback post, click on "Mark as resolved" in the toolbar on the right. This lets you indicate to other editors that the comment has been addressed. (Tech tip: if the post was not featured yet, you can hit “feature this post” and then "mark as resolved").

===What can I do with inappropriate feedback?===
[[File:AFT FAQ Flag as abuse.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, please report it by clicking on the "Flag as abuse" link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Administrators can then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

===How can I get more information about a post?===
To find out more about a feedback post, click on ‘Details’ next to that post’s time stamp. This lets you see a "permalink" page for that post, with some useful information about its author, its creation date and relevance score. You can also click on ‘View activity’ in the grey toolbar to see past actions taken by other reviewers and read their notes about this post. These details are only shown to editors, not to readers.

===How can I see feedback from across Wikipedia?===
Besides feedback pages for each individual article, there is also a [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5|central feedback page]] that displays all of the feedback for all of the articles in our test sample -- and soon all of Wikipedia. This central page can be used for general-purpose patrolling, to deal with both inappropriate posts that need hiding, and useful ones that should be brought to the attention of article writers.

===Who can moderate feedback pages?===
Editors have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on feedback pages. Editors like you can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of "monitors" ([[WP:ADMIN|admins]], [[WP:ROLLBACK|rollbackers]] and [[WP:REVIEWER|reviewers]]) can [[WP:REVDEL|hide inappropriate posts]], and an even smaller group of [[WP:OVERSIGHT|oversighters]] can permanently remove feedback from public view.

==Troubleshooting==

===The tool isn’t working properly===
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison]] at {{nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

===What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?===
[[User:Okeyes (WMF)|Our Community Liaison]] is happy to answer any questions on his talkpage; alternately, you can email him or [[Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Version 5|discuss it on the AFT5 talkpage]].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-07-09T17:28:57Z

Fabrice Florin: Updated file with new video tour.

''This page is a '''draft'''. Its contents will be updated as this tool develops.''

[[File:Article-Feedback-Video-Tour-Readers-07-08.ogv|right|400px|thumbtime=1:00.00|Article Feedback - Video Tour]]

[[File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Map]]

 
=Article Feedback =

==What is this feedback tool?==

[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 6]]

The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

At the bottom of each article you can find a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] to provide suggestions on how to improve the article. You can access all the comments provided by users at the [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]], as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|system map]]. Read more about these features below.

==Where can I find this tool?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is located at the bottom of the page.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?” and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles test sample] where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new AFT5 version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

==What kind of feedback should I give?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you. You can view this feedback page by clicking on 'Talk' at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View reader suggestions' at the top right of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details on the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Change filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Combine filters and sorting to get the desired content.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Readers Flag.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 

=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

= Recommended guidelines for monitors =
=== What you should do ===
* Feature specific tips and detailed ways to improve an article - e.g. "Please add to the article [[Angry Birds]] that the app uses [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] to save its settings."
* Mark comments as resolved comments if they have been resolved, and possibly link the diff of the resolution.
* Hide unmeaningful spam - e.g. "Hi, I like Airbus 380s" on the page [[Golf]].
* Hide [[profanity]] - e.g. "F**k you stupid WikiPedianz".
* Hide foreign languages unless you know what it means - e.g. “你好，谢谢维基百科！”.
* Hide (and request oversight) of comments containing emails and/or phone numbers. - e.g. "Email me at fdouglas@douglasindustri.es plz 4 more info and my phone # is 123-456-7890".
* Hide (and request oversight) of libelous comments containing insults and fake facts towards an organization or person. - e.g. "Justin Bieber broke up with Selena Gomez' wife."
* Hide pointless opinions - e.g. "I think [[Netflix]] should be bought by [[Blockbuster LLC|Blockbuster]]"

=== What you should not do ===
* Hide useful feedback in all caps - e.g. "YOU SHOULD PUT ON THERE THAT RUNESCAPE ADDED MICROTRANSACTIONS."
* Request oversight on profanity, foreign languages you cannot understand, unmeaningful spam, profanity and pointless opinions.
* Hide useful comments.
* Feature spam comments, profane comments, foreign language comments (no matter what), and pointless opinions.
* Hide comments that you do not like.
* Feature comments only because you like them.
* Mark comments as resolved comments that weren't resolved.
* Unfeature comments after they are resolved.
* Mark comments as resolved comments if you want to "hide" it somehow.

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-06-19T21:16:23Z

Fabrice Florin: Updated Feedback form number to say Option 6

''This page is a '''draft'''. Its contents will be updated as this tool develops.''

[[File:Feedback_Form_Option_6_Step_1.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 6]]

[[File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Map]]

 
=Article Feedback =

==What is this feedback tool?==
The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

At the bottom of each article you can find a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] to provide suggestions on how to improve the article. You can access all the comments provided by users at the [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]], as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|system map]]. Read more about these features below.

==Where can I find this tool?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback form step1.png|right|thumb|420px|The feedback form is located at the bottom of the page.]]

The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?” and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles test sample] where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new AFT5 version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

==What kind of feedback should I give?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you. You can view this feedback page by clicking on 'Talk' at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View reader suggestions' at the top right of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details on the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|550px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Change filters.png|right|thumb|420px|Combine filters and sorting to get the desired content.]]

You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
[[File:AFT FAQ Feedback votes.png|right|thumb|420px| Mark feedback as helpful when it can help to improve the article.]]

If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==

[[File:AFT FAQ Readers Flag.png|right|thumb|420px|You can flag a post as abuse. The flag counter indicates the number of users that have flagged the post.]]

If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 

=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-06-07T05:19:31Z

Fabrice Florin: Fixed category link, made copy tweaks for clarity.

''This page is a '''draft'''. Its contents will be updated as this tool develops.''

[[File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 1]]

[[File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Map]]

 
=Article Feedback =

==What is this feedback tool?==
The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

The Article Feedback Tool includes a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]] listing all comments for an article, as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|system map]]. Read more about these features below.

==Where can I find this tool?==
The feedback form is a blue box at the bottom of Wikipedia articles, with a simple question: "Did you find what you were looking for?” and a comments box (see example above). For now, it is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, while we complete development and testing. Would you like to try out this tool? Here are some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles test sample] where you can post feedback during this development phase. Until the new AFT5 version is released, an older version of the feedback tool (AFT4) is shown on most other Wikipedia articles, inviting people to rate the quality of articles -- without comments.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles in our test sample. This “feedback form” asks if you found what you were looking for. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors on the feedback page.

==What kind of feedback should I give?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you. You can view this feedback page by clicking on 'Talk' at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View reader suggestions' at the top right of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback was rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details on the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==
You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==
If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback that is against the law from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 
=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-06-06T09:03:11Z

Fabrice Florin: Moved graphics up near contents, to bring more questions above the fold. Added formatting and a bit of white space, for readability.

''This page is a '''draft'''. Its contents will be updated as this tool develops.''

[[File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|right|thumb|420px|Feedback Form Option 1]]

[[File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Map]]

 
=Article Feedback =

==What is this feedback tool?==
The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

The Article Feedback Tool includes a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]] listing all comments for an article, as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|system map]]. Read more about these features below.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles (see the example above). This “feedback form” starts with a simple question: “Did you find what you were looking for?”. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors. After posting your feedback, you can even [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|help contribute to the encyclopedia yourself!]]

==Where can I find this tool?==
The Article Feedback Tool v5 is still under development and is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, for testing purposes. The feedback form is shown as a blue box at the bottom of article pages in that test sample, where it asks if you “found what you were looking for.” The remainder of the articles provide an older version of the feedback tool, which invites people to rate the quality of articles, but without an opportunity to add comments. Here are some [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|sample articles]] where you can post feedback during this development phase.

==What kind of feedback are you looking for?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you (see next section). You can view this feedback page by clicking on ‘Talk’ at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View feedback' at the top of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback was rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details of the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample ]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==
You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==
If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback that is against the law from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 
=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback

2012-06-06T08:53:31Z

Fabrice Florin: Updated this help page to reflect latest improvements to the tool, to prepare for its wider deployment

''This page is a '''draft'''. Its contents will be updated as this tool develops.''

=Article Feedback =

[[File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|right|thumb|420px|Option 1: Feedback - A new design for Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool]]

==What is this feedback tool?==
The [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]] (AFT) offers a new way to contribute productively on Wikipedia. It invites you, the reader, to leave feedback about articles, to help our editors improve them. We hope you will leave helpful suggestions for improvement -- both for own your benefit and to provide better information to Wikipedia’s almost-500 million users.

The Article Feedback Tool includes a [[:File:AFT5-Feedback-Form-Option-1-Launch-Screenshot-12-19-2001.png|feedback form]] shown at the bottom of each article, as well as a [[:File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|feedback page]] listing all comments for an article, as shown in this [[:File:Article-Feedback-Map.png|system map]]. Read more about these features below.

==How do I leave feedback?==
To leave feedback, use the feedback form at the bottom of Wikipedia articles (see the example above). This “feedback form” starts with a simple question: “Did you find what you were looking for?”. Click on ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to let the editors if you found the article useful or not. Then add a comment about the article. For example, you can include suggestions for improvement, ask a question, give praise to the authors or report a problem. Just type your comment in the text box, then click “Post your feedback” to share it with the editors. After posting your feedback, you can even [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|help contribute to the encyclopedia yourself!]]

==Where can I find this tool?==
The Article Feedback Tool v5 is still under development and is only available on a small percentage of the English Encyclopedia, for testing purposes. The feedback form is shown as a blue box at the bottom of article pages in that test sample, where it asks if you “found what you were looking for.” The remainder of the articles provide an older version of the feedback tool, which invites people to rate the quality of articles, but without an opportunity to add comments. Here are some [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|sample articles]] where you can post feedback during this development phase.

==What kind of feedback are you looking for?==
Please post helpful feedback -- suggestions that can help editors improve the page. We encourage you to be civil, focus on facts, cite your sources, be specific and keep it short. Please avoid comments that are irrelevant, opinionated, offensive, defamatory or promotional. Community editors or automated software may flag or remove feedback that they find inappropriate. To learn more about do’s and don’ts of posting feedback on Wikipedia, check our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]].

==What happens to my feedback?==
When you post feedback on an article, it is added to a special “feedback page” which lets editors improve this article based on suggestions from users like you (see next section). You can view this feedback page by clicking on ‘Talk’ at the top of the article page, then clicking on 'View feedback' at the top of that talk page. Read below to learn more about the feedback page.

==Why was my feedback was rejected?==
The feedback form uses special software filters to reject or flag inappropriate posts. If you get a warning, please revise your comment as requested. For example, the filters block out obscenities -- or reject web addresses used for spam, as outlined in our [[Wikipedia:Feedback_guidelines|feedback guidelines]]. If you think that your feedback was rejected in error, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, with details of the problem you experienced.

==How else can I contribute to Wikipedia?==
Besides posting feedback, you can also become an editor :). Wikipedia is “the encyclopedia anyone can edit” and it is maintained by regular folks just like you. If joining our community is something you would be interested in, check out this [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial|quick tutorial on editing]]. If you have more questions about editing, you can ask them in the [[Wikipedia:Teahouse|Tea House]], where experienced Wikipedians are standing by to provide peer support for new editors.

 
=Feedback page=

[[File:Article-Feedback-Page-Readers-FAQ.png|right|thumb|420px|Article Feedback Page for Readers]]

==What is the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a list of feedback posts left by you and other readers for a given article, as shown in the screenshot above. Its purpose is to help editors improve the article based on reader feedback. To see the feedback page for any of the articles in our [[Category:Article_Feedback_5_Additional_Articles|test sample ]], click on “Talk” at the top of the article page; then click on “View feedback” at the top of the talk page. For example, take a look at the [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5/San_Francisco|feedback page for San Francisco]].

==What can I do on the feedback page?==
The feedback page is a great place to see what other readers think about a Wikipedia article. If you read a useful post that can help editors improve this article, please mark it as helpful. And if you find inappropriate feedback, you can flag it as abuse, as described below. By marking or flagging these posts, you can surface constructive feedback to the top of the list, which helps editors find good suggestions for improvement.

==How can I filter the feedback?==
You can pick which posts to view on the feedback page through different filters (e.g.: “Most Relevant” or “All Comments”). Simply select the filter of your choice in the top tool bar above the feedback list. “Most Relevant” includes only feedback that has been marked as helpful (or that has been featured by an editor) -- and excludes posts that have been flagged as abuse (or hidden by an editor). “All Comments” shows all feedback posts with a comment. You can also sort the list by relevance, date or helpfulness.

==How can I mark helpful feedback?==
If you see a good feedback post, we invite you to mark it as helpful by clicking on the “thumbs-up” icon below the post. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection. You can also mark feedback posts as unhelpful by clicking on the “thumbs-down” icon. This will change the ranking of that comment, making it appear more or less prominently depending on what option you select. This makes the suggested changes more obvious to our editors.

==How can I flag abusive feedback?==
If you see a feedback post that you think is inappropriate, we invite you to report it by clicking on the “Flag as abuse” link with the flag icon. The icon will turn blue to confirm your selection and the post will be flagged as abuse. Our editors will then review it and decide if it should be hidden or not. This also removes the post from the ‘Most relevant’ view, which makes it less prominent on the feedback page. If a post is flagged by five different users, it is automatically hidden from view.

==Where can I find my feedback?==
If you posted feedback on an article, your post should be listed on its feedback page. Use the filter and sort tools described above to find it. If you cannot find it, it is possible that other users may have made it less prominent. We plan to provide a way for you to find your feedback posts more easily in upcoming releases of this tool.

==Who can use this feedback tool?==
Anyone can post feedback on articles in our test sample (except for blocked users), and anyone can view the feedback page. Readers can mark posts as helpful/unhelpful or flag them as abuse, as described above. Some editors have access to special tools to let them monitor the feedback page, as described below.

==Who can moderate this feedback page?==
Experienced editors and administrators have access to special monitoring tools to moderate comments on the feedback page. All experienced editors can feature posts to make them more prominent, as well as mark them as resolved. A smaller group of “monitors” can hide inappropriate posts, and an even smaller group of “oversighters” can permanently remove feedback that is against the law from public view. All these groups can also view user activity and other details for each post.

==How can I learn more about monitoring tools?==
Experienced editors have access to special monitoring tools, which vary depending on their user rights. To learn more about these tools, click on the links below:
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors|Editor Help]]: Feature a post/Mark as resolved (for auto-confirmed editors)
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Monitors|Monitor Help]]: Hide a post/Request oversight (for rollbackers, reviewers or admins - a.k.a. 'monitors')
* [[Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Oversighters|Oversighter Help]]: Oversight (permanently remove) (for oversighters)

 
=Troubleshooting=

==The tool isn't working properly==
This is a fairly new tool, and some bugs are to be expected. If you find a bug, you can email [[User:Okeyes (WMF)|our Community Liaison, Product Development]] at {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}} with details of the error and what browser and operating system you are running. He will submit the bug reports for you.

==What do I do if I have other questions about this tool?==
As above, our Community Liaison is available to answer any questions about this tool. Feel free to email your query to {{Nospam|okeyes|wikimedia.org}}, and he'll be happy to provide as much information as he can :).

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Feedback-Richtlinien

2012-04-10T19:13:28Z

Fabrice Florin: Added a special bullet point to discourage repeated posts (to support our new throttling feature), as well as all-caps or no-punctuation posts. Clarified these may either be flagged or removed.

Help improve Wikipedia with our new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]]! We invite you to post suggestions about articles you read, so we can improve them together.

Here are some do's and don'ts about posting feedback on Wikipedia. The following guidelines will help you decide what to include in your posts -- and what to leave out. Your use of the article feedback tool is subject to these guidelines and Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

===Tips on posting feedback===
To make your feedback more helpful, we suggest you follow these simple rules:
* Be civil: When writing comments on WIkipedia, please be considerate and respectful of others.
* Focus on the facts: We aim to improve articles based on verifiable facts, not rumors or opinions.
* Cite your sources: We welcome links to factual evidence from credible and knowledgeable sources.
* Be specific: Write about specific parts of the article, with detailed suggestions for improvement.
* Keep it short: Your post should be concise, with no more than a thousand words.
* Full disclosure: If you are an author or subject of this article, please disclose this clearly in your post.

===What to avoid===
Community editors may flag or remove posts that include any of the following:
* Irrelevant, repetitive, or "nonsense" comments;
* Comments containing obscenities, swear words, or offensive content;
* Comments that defame the subject of an article, its editors, or any other living individuals;
* Comments that contain private phone numbers, email or street addresses, or other non-public personally identifying information;
* Advertisements, promotional or commercial materials, spam or commercial solicitations;
* Repeated posts that make the same point excessively, or posts written in all-caps or without any punctuation;
* Links to unrelated websites -- especially from spammers or sites that host illegal content;
* Programming code other than links (such as CSS, HTML or JavaScript);
* Anything else that [[m:The Wikipedia Community|the community of Wikipedia editors]], at its sole discretion, decides is inappropriate;
* Anything not explicitly or implicitly listed here that violates Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

Note: Special software filters are programmed to reject or flag comments that violate these guidelines. If you get a warning, please revise your post as requested.

Also note that the Wikimedia Foundation reserves the right to remove feedback when, as determined in its sole discretion: 1) it is required by law; or 2) it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or property of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users, or the public; or the feedback violates the Terms of Use.

===Learn more===
* To learn more about this project, visit the [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool v5]] (AFT5) overview page.
* For more tips on how to post feedback, check out the Article Feedback Tool [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help FAQ page].
* To find out more about editing on Wikipedia, check [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial our tutorial].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Feedback-Richtlinien

2012-04-05T03:18:33Z

Fabrice Florin: /* What to avoid */ Minor tweak to fix typo in programming bullet point.

Help improve Wikipedia with our new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]]! We invite you to post suggestions about articles you read, so we can improve them together.

Here are some do's and don'ts about posting feedback on Wikipedia. The following guidelines will help you decide what to include in your posts -- and what to leave out. Your use of the article feedback tool is subject to these guidelines and Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

===Tips on posting feedback===
To make your feedback more helpful, we suggest you follow these simple rules:
* Be civil: When writing comments on WIkipedia, please be considerate and respectful of others.
* Focus on the facts: We aim to improve articles based on verifiable facts, not rumors or opinions.
* Cite your sources: We welcome links to factual evidence from credible and knowledgeable sources.
* Be specific: Write about specific parts of the article, with detailed suggestions for improvement.
* Keep it short: Your post should be concise, with no more than a thousand words.
* Full disclosure: If you are an author or subject of this article, please disclose this clearly in your post.

===What to avoid===
Community editors may remove posts that include any of the following:
* Irrelevant, repetitive, or "nonsense" comments;
* Comments containing obscenities, swear words, or offensive content;
* Comments that defame the subject of an article, its editors, or any other living individuals;
* Comments that contain private phone numbers, email or street addresses, or other non-public personally identifying information;
* Advertisements, promotional material, spam, or commercial solicitations;
* Links to unrelated websites -- especially from spammers or sites that host illegal content;
* Programming code other than links (such as CSS, HTML or Javascript);
* Anything else that [[m:The Wikipedia Community|the community of Wikipedia editors]], at its sole discretion, decides is inappropriate;
* Anything not explicitly or implicitly listed here that violates Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

Note: Special software filters are programmed to reject or flag comments that violate these guidelines. If you get a warning, please revise your post as requested.

Also note that the Wikimedia Foundation reserves the right to remove feedback when, as determined in its sole discretion: 1) it is required by law; or 2) it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or property of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users, or the public; or the feedback violates the Terms of Use.

===Learn more===
* To learn more about this project, visit the [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool v5]] (AFT5) overview page.
* For more tips on how to post feedback, check out the Article Feedback Tool [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help FAQ page].
* To find out more about editing on Wikipedia, check [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial our tutorial].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Feedback-Richtlinien

2012-04-05T03:13:14Z

Fabrice Florin: /* What to avoid */ Minor tweaks to make this section more readable.

Help improve Wikipedia with our new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]]! We invite you to post suggestions about articles you read, so we can improve them together.

Here are some do's and don'ts about posting feedback on Wikipedia. The following guidelines will help you decide what to include in your posts -- and what to leave out. Your use of the article feedback tool is subject to these guidelines and Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

===Tips on posting feedback===
To make your feedback more helpful, we suggest you follow these simple rules:
* Be civil: When writing comments on WIkipedia, please be considerate and respectful of others.
* Focus on the facts: We aim to improve articles based on verifiable facts, not rumors or opinions.
* Cite your sources: We welcome links to factual evidence from credible and knowledgeable sources.
* Be specific: Write about specific parts of the article, with detailed suggestions for improvement.
* Keep it short: Your post should be concise, with no more than a thousand words.
* Full disclosure: If you are an author or subject of this article, please disclose this clearly in your post.

===What to avoid===
Community editors may remove posts that include any of the following:
* Irrelevant, repetitive, or "nonsense" comments;
* Comments containing obscenities, swear words, or offensive content;
* Comments that defame the subject of an article, its editors, or any other living individuals;
* Comments that contain private phone numbers, email or street addresses, or other non-public personally identifying information;
* Advertisements, promotional material, spam, or commercial solicitations;
* Links to unrelated websites -- especially from spammers or sites that host illegal content;
* Programming code other than links (such as CSS or HTML Javascript);
* Anything else that [[m:The Wikipedia Community|the community of Wikipedia editors]], at its sole discretion, decides is inappropriate;
* Anything not explicitly or implicitly listed here that violates Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

Note: Special software filters are programmed to reject or flag comments that violate these guidelines. If you get a warning, please revise your post as requested.

Also note that the Wikimedia Foundation reserves the right to remove feedback when, as determined in its sole discretion: 1) it is required by law; or 2) it is reasonably necessary to protect the safety, rights, or property of the Wikimedia Foundation, its users, or the public; or the feedback violates the Terms of Use.

===Learn more===
* To learn more about this project, visit the [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool v5]] (AFT5) overview page.
* For more tips on how to post feedback, check out the Article Feedback Tool [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help FAQ page].
* To find out more about editing on Wikipedia, check [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Tutorial our tutorial].

Wikipedia:Archiv/Artikelbewertung/AFT/Hilfe:Artikel-Feedback/Feedback-Richtlinien

2012-04-04T18:09:06Z

Fabrice Florin: Added a special note about Wikimedia's right to remove posts when required by law or other permitted cases.

Help improve Wikipedia with our new [[WP:AFT5|Article Feedback Tool]]! We invite you to post suggestions about articles you read, so we can improve them together.

Here are some do's and don'ts about posting feedback on Wikipedia. The following guidelines will help you decide what to include in your posts -- and what to leave out. Your use of the article feedback tool is subject to these guidelines and Wikipedia's [[Foundation:Terms of use|Terms of Use]].

===Tips on posting feedback===
To make your feedback more helpful, we suggest you follow these simple rules:
* Be civil: When writing comments on WIkipedia, please be considerate and respectful of others.
* Focus on the facts: We aim to improve articles based on verifiable facts, not rumors or opinions.
* Cite your sources: We welcome links to factual evidence from credible and knowledgeable sources.
* Be specific: Write about specific parts of the article, with detailed suggestions for improvement.
* Keep it short: Your post should be concise, with no more than a thousand words.
* Full disclosure: If you are an author or subject of this article, please disclose this clearly in your post.

===What to avoid===
Community editors may remove posts that include any of the following:
* Irrelevant, repetitive, or "nonsense" comments;
* Comments containing obscenities, swear words, or offensive content;
* Comments that defame the subject of an article, its editors, or any other living individuals;
* Comments that contain non-public personally identifying information (such as phone numbers, emails, or street addresses);
* Programming code other than links (such as CSS or HTML Javascript);
* Advertisements, promotional material, spam, or commercial solicitations;
* Links to unrelated websites -- especially from spammers or sites that host illegal content;
* Anything else that [[m:The Wikipedia Community|the community of Wikipedia editors]], at its sole discretion, decides is inappropriate;
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