On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That doesn't, however, help the concern that millions of users are pulling up the images without immediately seeing the license requirements and author information. To the contrary, Media Viewer displays the license, author and source as an always visible part of the image. On a typical file page, you have to scroll down to find any of this information; most users won't do that, if what they are looking for is the image, and that is available without scrolling. (It is well known in web usability <http://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention/> that relatively little attention is given to things above the fold; one of the main benefits of Media Viewer is that it brings the most important things above it.) Also, many people might not use file pages simply because they are so slow. A famous experiment by Google <http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/speed-matters.html> showed that lowering loading speed by 200 ms resulted in 0.3% less interactions (on the English Wikipedia's scale, that would be about 20,000 thumbnail clicks a day). MediaViewer improves image loading time by a full second for the median user. _______________________________________________ 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>
