On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> For what it's worth, the line " For one thing, they can turn out
> negative, in which case we will have been spared a  philosophical
> debate about openness." comes off as very snarky and also entirely the
> wrong approach.


Debates about the Wikimedia ethos tend to be highly subjective and thus
costly both in terms of time and emotional resources. Measuring whether
banners work is fairly simple and objective. It makes sense to perform the
cheapest prerequisite checks first, to minimize total cost.
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