Cross posting to wikitech-l 2009/5/8 Ian Woollard <[email protected]>: > Well, the wikipedia is big... google is big also. > > One of the tricks google use is they try stuff out on victims... I > mean users. They pick a small percentage of the internet and do > something slightly different for them, and see if it works or not. The > advantage of only doing it for a small number is that it means you can > write the test with prototyping tools, rather than having to make it > run fast, and you'll have a lot less complaints if it doesn't work > very well. It also means you can do back-back comparisons stuff like: > 'we tried this, and it showed a 23% improvement in referencing'. > > I think if at all practical, the wikipedia needs to start doing stuff like > that.
That sounds like an excellent idea to me. Is it achievable? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
