On 15 April 2014 18:12, Steven Walling <[email protected]> wrote:
> We don't have a powerful/easy to use/not annoying/privacy-respecting survey > tool that can do side-by-side comparisons. This is why the feature was > launched using Beta Features for five months first. Putting out in opt-in > mode and gathering feedback via the channels we have now is the most > efficient way to make a change that doesn't have a big WMF team assigned to > like Multimedia or VisualEditor. > When it comes to using a survey to catch problems early and gauging > preferences, a survey still very much suffers from the self-selection bias > that all opt-in options have. It's just the name of the game. When you move > something from opt-in to opt-out you reach a wider audience and encounter > new complaints/questions/bugs. ... so the answer to "what user testing did you do, where are the user test results" is "we didn't"? - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
