I have requested that the Board clarify WMF policy about office actions with regard to the software features of wikis.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Request:_clarify_policy_for_on-wiki_Office_actions Pine On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@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>
