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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:13:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: Wikipedia's "Rate this page"
From: Rob Weir <apache@robweir.com>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Danese Cooper <danese@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rob,
>
> You may not know that I am the CTO of Wikimedia Foundation. =C2=A0Let me =
tell you
> that you want to first watch the experiment that is the new Article Feedb=
ack
> feature play out awhile on Wikipedia. =C2=A0We at WMF have no idea whethe=
r we're
> even measuring the right things with that tool yet.
>

I've seen a similar approach done with documentation and support pages
for commercial products as well.  So I think the idea has a good
pedigree.  But you do need to ask the right questions.  I think the
right questions for product documentation are likely to differ from
the questions used at Wikipedia.


> Danese
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rob Weir <apache@robweir.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't know if you've noticed this new feature that has recently been rol=
led
>> out.
>>
>> Scroll down to the bottom of this, or any other Wikipedia page:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
>>
>> Readers are invited to rate the page on completeness, objectivity,
>> etc. =C2=A0Presumably this information is aggregated and in the future c=
an
>> guide editors towards the pages that need the most work.
>>
>> Would an approach like this have any benefit for our website, for doc,
>> tutorials, etc.?
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>