You mean, you don't have them yourselves, or you can't expose them?

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On 26 August 2014 15:46, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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