On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:03 PM, <susanpgard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Austin, think about who "everyone" is. The folks here on foundation-l are > not representative of readers. The job of the user experience team is to try > to balance all readers' needs, which is not easy, and will sometimes involve > making decisions that not everyone agrees with. People here have given some > useful input, but I think it's far from obvious that the user experience team > has made a "mistake.". (I'm not really intending to weigh in on this > particular issue -- I'm speaking generally.)
Regarding calling it a mistake, I'm making this judgment based not on my personal opinion—which is by now abundantly clear—but on the scientific basis that forming a conclusion without data makes for a bad conclusion. It's true that I wouldn't bother to weigh in on the process if I agreed with the outcome. I think that's true for most of us. But since I'm bothering anyway, I may as well say that the process is flawed, and the decision doesn't logically follow the facts—since we haven't measured (scientific jargon, here) the facts in the first place. Austin _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
