https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38798

Ori Livneh <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Ori Livneh <[email protected]> 2012-07-29 19:35:47 UTC ---
You're welcome to submit a patch, but I won't fix this unless I have the time
to spare. This is an annoyance, not a bug, and it's temporary.

Our experiments are live for a short period of time, and they are optimized for
insight and speed rather than polish. They are not permanent features. They
will be taken down regardless of how well-liked they are, because they are
there to answer questions, not to be liked.

In April of 2011, the board unanimously approved Resolution:Openness[1], which
designates editor engagement and retention as the top priority for the
foundation. We won't fix the editor decline problem unless we know what is
causing it, and we won't know what is causing it unless we run a set of
experiments that test a range of hypotheses.

Multivariate testing *always* takes a toll. Think, for example, how
disorienting it would be to ask a question on IRC on the presumption that the
interface you just interacted with is universal, only to find that no one knows
what you're talking about, because they haven't been bucketed into the same
experimental group as you. We are aware of these effects and strive to minimize
them, but we will allow ourselves to behave like elephants from time to time
and we expect to be suffered.

  [1]: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Openness

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