User:Kaldari/Signpost

The new WikiLove extension was deployed to the English Wikipedia as scheduled on June 30th. The extension was turned on for all logged-in users (except those who marked "Exclude me from feature experiments" in their preferences).

Media coverage leading up to the deployment was unexpectedly intense, with stories appearing in Slashdot, Wired, The Huffington Post, MSNBC Technolog, PC Magazine, PC World, and elsewhere. Most of the coverage was positive or neutral, with several sources citing the related research data posted on the Wikimedia blog. Some of the stories compared WikiLove with Facebook's Like button, in some cases erroneously assuming that it functions in a similar capacity. The most critical coverage was probably from The Atlantic which characterized WikiLove as "an absurd experiment", but added that "the experiment could evolve into a truly useful feature".

Media coverage: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove/Media_coverage

User stories: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove/Stories

Some users on Internet Explorer reported problems using the Make Your Own feature. This was traced to an API bug which will be fixed later this week.