El 5/8/09 7:22 PM, Thomas Dalton escribió: > 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?
Such A/B testing is planned for various things where feasible. Some things will be easier to do this way than others. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
