Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback Tool/Archive 3

Well written????
Is Jorge Delgado (footballer) well written, or barely written at all? How do I judge that? Oalexander-En (talk) 12:12, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Accessibility
Someone has discovered they can't leave feedback without using a mouse: see WT:WikiProject Accessibility. I suspect Version 5 is just as bad. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:29, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks :). I'll stick it in Bugzilla. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:04, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Abuse of page ratings
Can someone please disable the page ratings for the Ping Fu article? It's patently obvious that the same "virulent attack by China’s Internet vigilantes, who have slammed her account of the country’s Mao-era troubles and lampooned the book on Amazon with a flood of one-star reviews" have also swarmed our page ratings. First Light (talk) 20:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Done - thank you, Nikkimaria. And I learned how to do it for next time.... First Light (talk) 21:28, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Current average ratings
The numbers are described as the "current average ratings".

It would be helpful to see a "since" date for these figures. An article with 5 votes; is that 5 votes this month, or 5 votes since voting began years ago?

If an article undergoes a major rewrite, are the figures reset? Say, for instance, an article has been rated 25 times and all 25 have rated the article as "1". A major rewrite and expansion is undertaken and over the next few months the article is rated another 25 times, each with a score of 5. Without a reset, the article will show a "current average" of "3" giving a false view that readers want to see improvments.

Perhaps the results should separately show the figures for "the last month", "the last 3 (or 6?) months" and "since the beginning", or else the figures should be reset every 3 months or so? Without some sort of clarification, or a reset, trends will not be discernable and in the long term the average will become bogged down with figures from long ago rather than reflecting how well the current version is perceived.

I'd assume that editors would want to be alerted to articles attracting lower scores than before and would want to showcase articles currently getting high scores that have had a long history of low scores. With the current system that doesn't seem to be possible. - 86.163.171.128 (talk) 17:51, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 5 votes in the last 30 days. So, to be clear; it resets. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

AFT Gone
I seem to have lost all visibility of the article feedback tool. Is this due to some update in progress or have I done somthing to switch it off for my browsing? Graham.Fountain | Talk 10:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Neither; there was a community RfC on the tool, and editors made the decision to disable it and make it an opt-in system. You should be able to re-enable it for any articles you want feedback on by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 to the page. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Ta. Graham.Fountain | Talk 09:52, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:23, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * You can opt in version 5 but not version 4 GRRRRRR!!!!!--Penbat (talk) 17:43, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

The removal of feedback tool version 4 is a big loss IMO
Help_desk --Penbat (talk) 17:33, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Agreed, now 5 has been removed as it is "deprecated" (I don't know what this means, but it seems to mean it's been removed from the pages I placed it on. *looks up definition), and I've switched to wikiwatch etc for any sort of feedback. I have page views, but I find the situation currently, with no feedback a step backwards from the situation with feedback 4.Lacunae (talk) 21:58, 4 January 2014 (UTC)