On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 13:19, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > thank you for your summary, Guillaume. I would like to add to this a > question based on Jon's insightful email: > > the research you did on clicks etc, was apparently only on the English > Wikipedia. Would it be an option to first do more research on how the links > are used on the other projects? Out of the >700 projects to choose from, > you > unfortunately picked one where the clicking is most likely to be very > different from all the other projects. Usually that is not a good basis to > build decisions for all 700 projects on. Besides that, it seems you > measured > logged in users (since you mention comparing monobook vs vector, it seems > that you measured people who switched before the Big Switch?) Perhaps you > want to actually do research on how anonymous users work. > > There's a few other things that would be interesting: * comparing with country as well (to account for # languages people likely know, wether they're likely to be browsing their own language wikipedia) * effect of a long list of interwiki (altho you'd need to correct for wether there's likely a language they know well/better then the version they're currently reading) - I wonder if a long list makes it less likely for people to click on something * size of the article - do long articles interwikilinks get used less or not? henna _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
