2011/4/2 Rodan Bury <bury.ro...@gmail.com>: > The analysis of the qualitative and quantitative results of the Usability > Initiative is not a question anybody can answer. Comments like "I personally > prefer monobook" (fictional example) does not help to make an analysis based > on facts. > > Erik Möller's answer is professional and detailed in this regard. > > I could add a little summary of the goals and priorities of the Usability > Initiative as I understand them, which will help us understand its result. > The Vector was a high priority change rated "easy to do", and as such they > focused on deploying it first. It is aimed at readers and editors, and the > result was new editors felt more comfortable when clicking on the edit link > and attempting to edit.
Well, that was my original question: Did they? Because, frankly, Erik's reply hardly answers this question. The most recent study he cited was a study of 10 San Francisco residents. What about other cities, other countries, other languages, other projects? I understand that WMF's resources are limited, but the development and the deployment of Vector did cost some money and also forced a lot of volunteers in English and in all other language projects to make adjustments to their sites. Measuring volunteer effort is harder to measure than money, but it's certainly not negligible. And i am wondering whether anybody measured how well these resources were spent. It's not that i'm strongly against Vector; it's nice and all, but for the last few weeks i switched back to Monobook and to the old editing toolbar and i don't feel any difference. But since that's just me, i might be wrong, so i am asking again: 10 people in San Francisco? Is that all the measurement that was conducted after the switch? And did anybody try to measure the influence of Monobook and Vector on editor *retention*, another hot topic recently? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
