Because the team is prioritizing "newcomer tasks" (T227728), this additional module would not be a priority until later in the year (if at all).

Perhaps we can look at using the Quick surveys extension for this item instead?
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickSurveys

Option 1 would be easier to use if we provide a landing page where people are redirected to the right place regarding the feedback they want to provide. Something along the lines of "If it is about the wiki, ask your mentor; if it is about the tools, click here".

However it is very difficult to find the right wording to encourage people to make a choice about a concept they have no idea of. And we already observe users who use all options provided to be sure to get their point. Or we can have others abandoning, as it is too complicated to understand where to go.

A possible solution would be to do it as it was done for VE back in the days: create a local feedback page, and let the community curate it for us. They would be intermediaries between newcomers and us, by highlighting the useful information we need. However, it would only work where volunteers would dedicate some time for us. For the latter, we could curate these pages, but with the risk of not being capable of replying in the user's language.

Option 2 is my preffered right now, because if its advantages:

• it is in-context feedback, with clear directions on what we look for. The free-text field could receive off-topic comments, but it is less a risk than in a fully open solution like in option 1
• we already know how to work on that solution regarding data storing or privacy, based on the experience acquired builgind Special:WelcomeSurvey.
• having options to vote on is actionable data you can query. It is not walls of text where you have to crawl to understand what the user means (without being 100% sure).

It also has a downside too: with the free-text field, anyone leaving a sensitive comment there (such as a call for immediate help) will probably remain unnoticed until we extract the feedback for analysis.

Maybe we can do both?

The "Give feedback" link can expand to a UX that allows for the radio button UX in option 2. But we can also provide a "Give us more detailed feedback" link before/after submitting for users who want to write up some text on a mw.org talk page.

Regarding going to a mw.org page, VE had something similar to what we have for newcomers when they want to ask a question to their mentor: a box with no need to go elsewhere, or to sign, etc. I'd go with a similar option to avoid seeing newcomers getting lost.

Adding @KStoller-WMF for visibility and input.