Last modified: 2011-05-03 16:44:11 UTC
Could the developers update the article feedback extension on the English Wikinews to the new one used on the English Wikipedia? The four labels would be as follows: *Reliability *Completeness *Neutrality *Presentation See http://mediawiki.org/Article_Feedback for info on the new version. Thanks!
You can't really "update" from one to the other. The older one will be ditched and replaced with it's successor. Data (very) likely won't carry over though.
Could a dev confirm that the data will be gone?
(In reply to comment #2) > Could a dev confirm that the data will be gone? It doesn't have to be erased. enwikinews and enwiki are using two different extensions (one is the successor of the other). They use different DB tables. The old tables from the old extension could still be kept of course.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Could a dev confirm that the data will be gone? > > It doesn't have to be erased. enwikinews and enwiki are using two different > extensions (one is the successor of the other). They use different DB tables. > The old tables from the old extension could still be kept of course. How hard would it be to write a migration script? how differnt are the db layouts?
The data carrying over is not even useful. The newest version of the tool uses different categories, so the data doesn't really carry over properly anyways. Just dump your article_feedback* tables for your own statistical analysis and move on. The most recent version of the ArticleFeedback extension actually expires ratings (a feature that was part of the original design but implemented later on) making them especially ephemeral, so I wouldn't worry too much about the rating data aside from getting a dump of it.
This bug doesn't appear to be relevant anymore. The Article feedback tool has been further improved, and deployment of version 3 is scheduled.
