On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote:

> ok I'm a little late to the party but why doesnt media viewer just use the
> same very effective layout of the category slide show thats currently
> operating on Commons given it has already solved all these issues
>

I am even more late but just wanted to point out that the problems in
MediaViewer were identified by click tracking and user tests; before
performing those, the interface did not seem problematic. Given that no
such analysis has been done on the category viewer gadget, I would be
skeptical towards claims that it performs any better.

(More generally, I think there is a tendency in the community to be
overconfident in the effectiveness of the current interface, and a tendency
in WMF to dismiss it off-hand. More curiosity as to what works well and
what not would be a welcome change on both sides.)
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