Wikipedia tool allows readers to suggest changes

Wikipedia tool allows readers to suggest changes to articles:

Wikipedia plans to ask users to provide suggestions to improve articles on its website, which could be
incorporated into the articles by its editors, Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit charitable organization that
operates the site, said.

It said its research showed that the new tool can help readers become editors over time.

Since 2010, Wikipedia deployed its Article Feedback Tool which in its current V4 version features a rating form
at the bottom of Wikipedia articles. Readers can rate a page on a scale from 1 to 5, using four different metrics:
trustworthiness, objectivity, completeness and quality of writing. V4 however had limitations on the amount of
input it provided editors.

A new version 5 of the AFT aims to provide new ways for readers to contribute to the building the encyclopedia,
according to Wikimedia. The new version of Article Feedback asks readers to make suggestions about articles they
are reading, and invites editors to improve these articles based on this feedback.

The feedback form can be viewed for example at the end of this entry on the golden-crowned sparrow. Users can also rate
feedback and suggestions by other readers.

Editors get to view the feedback and can feature a post so that it can be noticed by other editors, hide
inappropriate comments, or include the changes in the main article.

Wikimedia Foundation is currently testing the tool across 3 percent of the English version of Wikipedia with
plans to take it up to 10 percent by the end of this month.