Happy to see methodology being discussed. When WMF has worked out a method that it thinks makes sense, please discuss with the community at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC. You may also wish to engage with Commons and German Wikipedia.
Thanks, Pine On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:34 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> > wrote: > > A/B testing for major interface changes isn't such a good idea, I > > think. It's great for small things like login fields that people > > aren't likely to notice, but once you get into major interface > > elements you're going to get quite a few people confused or > > frustrated. > > > > "Why is your Wikipedia different to mine?", "Why does this not look > > like the help page says?", etc. > > Regarding help pages ... > > It is safe to say that a decent segment of the editing community wants > to keep the old interface, and the old interface is needed to edit the > page, and I think it is safe to assume that the MediaViewer isnt going > away - at worst it will go back to being a Beta Feature that is > enabled for a large segment of the userbase. > > Therefore, the help pages need to cover both. This is a cost of > introducing a feature that isnt a complete replacement of prior > functionality - and has a high maintenance cost that the devs and > community must bear. The solution to that is to hold the feature in > Beta until it is an acceptable replacement for the existing > functionality. > > If this A/B testing goes ahead, and I think it should, the relevant > help pages should have a note at the top that explains that testing is > occurring and their user pref may have been preset to either one. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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