On 10 July 2014 19:23, Isarra Yos <zhoris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/07/14 18:01, David Gerard wrote:
>> OTOH, typical mind fallacy is rampant everywhere and the results of an >> actual decent user survey would probably surprise everyone. > That was kind of my point - as much as editors do tend deal more directly > with the readers, we've basically got two (rather biased) sides who both > think they know what readers want and thus try to speak for them. This may > not even be an issue, by itself, but unfortunately it's becoming a rather > common tactic among some WMF staff to simply dismiss community feedback > saying things like that the editors simply don't speak for the readers. But > if this is really the case, what gives the WMF the right to speak for the > readers either? > Personally I'm getting rather tired of this. I concur that there's a bit much reasoning from no data, and we could do with some. Anecdotally, (a) I don't mind the new viewer (b) I know a lot of people who've said they love it (c) I know a few who've said they hate it. So yeah, real user surveys needed! - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
