On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:39 AM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jon Robson wrote: > >On 27 Mar 2015 2:11 am, "Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>The last editor is not that relevant (and quite often it will be a bot), > > > > Yet more people click on it for whatever reason: > >http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/#other-graphs-tab. > > This is an incredibly spurious argument. Sigh. Nowhere am I arguing. I give up on this mailing list thread. > You're manipulating the meaning > of data to fit your own purposes. Is there _any_ bold link that you could > place on top of every English Wikipedia mobile article that wouldn't > receive substantial traffic given the overall amount of traffic that the > site receives? Of course not. > > You linked to this same graph to justify the existence of the horrible > Special:UserProfile (i.e., "look, people are visiting it!"). Tell me, of > the users who click on this username link in the mobile strapline, what > percentage find the content helpful? What percentage immediately click > back to the previous page? If you moved the strapline to the bottom of the > article, how quickly would you stop citing a graph on wmflabs.org (trusted > stats source that it is...)? > > > More generally we really need to pay attention to our data and rely on > >it more. I see far too many changes across the site based on guesswork > >and personal preferences and that's an anti pattern we need to reverse. > > You mean like pointing to a graph showing that a link placed very > prominently somehow means that the underlying feature is a good idea? That > kind of specious reasoning? The anti-pattern is your behavior here. > > > Now we have a ux research team and ways to a/b test we can test > >different designs and see if they generate the correct behaviour. > > Just to recap, you want to take a feature intended to humanize Wikipedia > and turn it into a feature in which you can treat every visitor as a lab > rat ready to be tested upon without their consent? Maybe instead of > treating site visitors and readers as customers, we could treat them as > colleagues and stop wasting their limited screen real estate with a > relatively useless mobile strapline. Just a thought. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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