https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62811
Jared Zimmerman (WMF) <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected], | |[email protected], | |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from Jared Zimmerman (WMF) <[email protected]> --- Wanted to read over everyones point of view here before responding. I'll try to address everyone's concerns… We have a reader decline, its backed by hard numbers, any creative solution for bringing more readers and contributors into the project should be seriously discussed without being dismissed out of hand. Calling twitter a passing fad is dismissive to others who do hard work on that project (let's not be negative people) their user base is 2/3s, or equal to wikipedias depending on the metric you uses, so its not insignificant by any means. We already do plenty of platform or use case specific code for IE compatibility so this is nothing new. The Twitter Card tags are very lightweight as I'm sure other developers have pressured them to be so. The benefits far outweigh any cruft to the pages in my mind, it also gives us far more control over the look and feel of how are content is displayed on 3rd party services which is crucial to maintaining the standard we have for displaying license and rights related to our content when used outside our sites. Next Steps: I'm having Ori look over Harsh's extension for any performance issues, and Dario is taking a look in order to see if there are any changes that can or should be made to help us better measure the effects of a change like this on traffic from referring sites. If it gets the blessing of Ori, my recommendation is to go forward with enabling the extension on WMF sites for now, measure the effect on traffic and evaluate in a few months. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
