I have made a suggestion to the WMF Board. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Suggestion_for_the_Board:_Technology_Committee
In the near future, I plan to look at the policies surrounding office actions as they apply to product decisions made by local communities, and will likely make a request to the Board that they review those policies as a separate matter. Cheers, Pine On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Pharos <pharosofalexand...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > George has made a useful contribution here, in that his points appear to be > actually testable. > > Could the WMF or someone else look into user-testing how the MediaViewer > (and variations on it) affects the average reader's perception and > consciousness of the licensing information? > > Thanks, > Pharos > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
