Except we don't have those tools. There are a lot of domains in the
ecosystem where this kind of experimentation and targeting on a per-wiki or
per-project basis, but we have a big gap around functionality and expertise
to let us scientifically test the efficacy of their various implementations.


On 26 August 2014 10:34, Edward Saperia <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>> There's no point in polling existing community members about
>> functionality they will not see.
>>
>
> While I am a great supporter of your team's work, I'd just like to comment
> on the above;
>
> Wiser community members are aware that they are part of a powerful
> ecosystem, and that taming this ecosystem is a far more leveraged pursuit
> than doing the work yourself. Creating additional endpoints for onboarding
> processes that you're exposing to new users should be something that all
> projects are excited to take part in, so hopefully you'd want to poll the
> community for the valuable "Yes, and..." responses you'll get.
>
> If you find you don't get responses like this, perhaps you might want to
> consider re-framing your new functionality as open infrastructure that the
> rest of the community is invited to build on, for example maybe
> wikiprojects themselves could specify the suggestions that are shown to new
> editors who edit in their subject areas?
>
> Given appropriate tools to track effectiveness, this could create a huge,
> open environment for experimentation that could find interesting solutions
> faster than any engineering department ever could on their own.
>
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