 | This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. AFT5 was removed from all Wikimedia wikis on March 3, 2014. |
| Developer(s) | Wikimedia Foundation, with the assistance of: Dougweller, GorillaWarfare, TheHelpfulOne, Trizek, Utar and many others. |
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| Type | Assessment (wiki content) |
| Website | Article Feedback Version 5 @ MediaWiki |
The Article Feedback Tool project (AFT) was an experimental project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Article Feedback Version 5 (AFT5) was developed from November 2011 to June 2013, and tested in three pilots on the English, French and German Wikipedias. The goal of this AFT5 version was to engage readers to participate on Wikipedia -- and to help editors improve articles based on reader feedback. After careful review of pilot results, this project was discontinued in March 2014, as outlined in this report.
Here on the English Wikipedia, community members participating in an RfC in March 2013 recommended that the tool be implemented on a small-scale, opt-in basis, instead of being rolled out to every article. During a one-year period, feedback was enabled by editors on at least 4,005 articles, while it was also disabled on thousands of other articles by editors opposing this tool. In consultation with community and team members, the foundation removed the tool on March 3, 2014.