I thought we already had this discussion recently: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/412782?do=post_view_threaded#412782
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Rainer Rillke <rainerril...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Recently, Media Viewer[1] (MMV) has been switched at Wikimedia Commons > to be default. > > As some people do not care a lot for beta features or new features, do > not read the mailing lists and overlook main discussion forums or are > just unable to understand English, they were surprised and confused and > wondered how they could disable the feature. > > Please help me to evaluate if there are alternatives to how software > deployment is currently done. Here are some suggestions from community > member Jameslwoodward (commons adminstrator): > > > A Post a banner so that there is a good chance of actually reaching > everyone. > B Ensure that the internally referenced help page actually has correct > information. > C Major changes can be the default for new users, but should be opt-in > for existing users. > > I think (A) could be partially done by tech-ambassadors (what a > difficult word); however when deploying something like MMV to all wikis, > isn't this worth a CentralNotice? > > (B) is as obvious as important. Outdated information is confusing. Make > sure to update your help pages before going to release your software to > the wild. Or delay the release until this is done. > > Suggestion (C) is interesting, although perhaps technically difficult to > implement. > If a feature that one experienced as anonymous user is good [login > cookies expire, ...], or one explicitly tested the feature or was told > by a fellow about a good feature, it is very likely that one will enable > that feature for the account, too. People will do this freely. Without > complaining. And people, who intentionally enabled a feature, usually > have a positive attitude, are willing to help and improve the feature. > They will provide you with constructive feedback. > The overall atmosphere would be a lot more positive than that we > currently experience with new tools, *the power users do not need*. So > why not actively promoting a feature until there is a critical mass > using it? It may take a lot of time but I think it's worth a test. > > > A personal appeal: > Please care about the power users [2]. They are the core and foundation > of the WMF projects. They create the content; manage most issues - think > about the OTRS team - in their spare time, ... so WMF can finally run > the fundraiser banners and you can get your payment. > > -- Rillke > > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Multimedia/Media_Viewer > [2] > > http://www.aswedeingermany.de/50SoftwareDevelopment/20MostImportantRuleOfUIDesign.html > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
