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Article Feedback v5

Usage statistics update

JANUARY 2013

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1. where we are�2. the good news

3. the not so good news

4. what's next

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Where we are

AFT deployed on a random selection of 10% enwiki articles from enwiki since July 2012 [1]

400K articles

[1] 413,367 ns0 articles as of Nov 15, 2012, on top of a small sample of 300+ cherry picked articles and 1K help pages. Redirects and manually blacklisted pages are not part of the sample.

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Feedback: Volume

How much feedback is posted compared to edits?

mean posts/day [1] mean edits/day [2]

4,100 67,500

10% SAMPLE 100% ENWIKI NS0

[1] Mean daily post volume on ns0 articles: 4,113 (2012-09-07 - 2012-10-18), prior to introduction of stricter AbuseFilter rules (raw data) (dashboard)

[2] Mean daily ns0 edits excl. bots between (2012-09-07, 2012-10-18): 67,439 (data)

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the good news

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Engagement: Unique posters

How many readers are we engaging?

unique anon posters/day [1]

2,800

10% SAMPLE

unique anon posters/month [2]

114K

10% SAMPLE

[1] Mean daily unique tokens (2012-09-07, 2012-10-18): 2,835 (data) [2] Mean monthly unique tokens (2012-08-01, 2012-11-01):114,520 (data)

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Engagement: New registrations

Sign up Call to Action

CTA data collected between (2012-10-26, 2012-10-29) (data)

8.7%664

92.0%611

52.0%318

64.5%205

CTA�impression

CTA

sign up�click

account creation�impression

account creation�submit

account creation�success

100%7,644

7.8%599

CTA

log in�click

2.7%

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Feedback: Quality

What proportion of feedback is useful?

40% of feedback blindly

classified as useful by at least

2 Wikipedians

(but less than 25% on popular articles) [1]

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Usability_evaluation

AFT Stage 2: quality assessment (report) (new round of quality assessment analysis scheduled in December)

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the not so good news

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Moderation

How many unique users participate in moderation?

unique daily

moderators

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[1] Mean number of unique daily registered moderators: 93 (2012-09-07, 2012-10-18) (dashboard)

90

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Moderation

How many posts are moderated?

daily posts moderated within 24h

3.5%

daily posts moderated within 1 month

11.5%

[1] Mean % of daily posts moderated within 24h (2012-09-07, 2012-10-18): 3.4% (data)

[1] Mean % of daily posts moderated within 1 month (2012-09-07, 2012-10-18): 11.5% (data)

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what's next��BETTER FILTERS�SIMPLER MODERATION TOOLS

BETTER FEEDBACK VISIBILITY

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Article feedback research

Feedback quality evaluation

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:AFT/Usability_evaluation

AFT5 2012-Q4 research report

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AFT5_2012-Q4_report.pdf

Feedback/moderation dashboards

toolserver.org/~dartar/fp/

toolserver.org/~dartar/aft5/