On 09/02/2014 10:35 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > The key here in my opinion is: > - clear communication about what state constitutes "success" (e.g. "When > 80% of people who have opted in have STAYED opted-in") > - clear communication about the progress towards that state (e.g. Showing > the "success" factor in the little statistics on the "beta features" tab, > and showing how close we are to that.) > - only moving to the next stage when that state has been reached, (not a > fixed schedule but "it is ready when it is ready, not before") > - making it easy to try, and withdraw from, new things, always starting > with opt-in before making it opt-out.
This sounds sane indeed. +1 from me, at the very least. Note how VE did pretty much the opposite of that, and that was a disaster (the rollout, not VE itself). -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>